Man absorbed in landscape
1966
- Medium
- oil on composition board
- Measurements
- 122.1 × 126.0 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Portugal
- Inscription
- inscribed in brown paint l.l.: John / Olsen '66
inscribed in chalk on reverse u.l.: MAN ABSORBED / IN LANDSCAPE - Accession Number
- 2004.200
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Joseph Brown Collection. Presented through the NGV Foundation by Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2004
© John Olsen/Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Gallery 19
Level 3, NGV Australia - About this work
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In 1966 Olsen and his family spent more than four months in Portugal, living in a small village near Portalegre, where the Fini tapestry atelier was weaving his You beaut tapestries. Both painting and title are puns on the idea of man contemplating nature in the Romantic tradition, man as an animistic being from tribal legend, and the Earth as all-embracing mother.
- Subjects (general)
- Abstract Art Human Figures Landscapes
- Subjects (specific)
- colours (hues or tints) flora (plants) lines (artistic concept) men (male humans) silhouettes
