TOM ROBERTS

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Sunday Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

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Tom Roberts (Thomas William Roberts 1856 -1931) was an Australian impressionist artist. He was an important proponent of the en plein air painting, and encouraged other artists for national (Australian) narratives. He rarely included human beings in his landscape paintings, but was an excellent portraitist.

Roberts did his painting many media like in water colours, oils and acrylics. His subjects were equally varied, but his love for coastal areas and rural or country scenes dominated his art. He exploited Australia atmospheric effects like light, heat, lands, barren spaces, bushes and distances. He gradually turned to low-key tonal impressionist effects and naturalism to highlight the terrain characteristic and clouds. He painted many evocative small (on cigar boxes lids) landscapes and seascapes. 

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