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Aug 11, 2018 · Ned Kelly showcases Australian artist Sidney Nolan’s series of 26 paintings of the nineteenth-century bushranger Ned Kelly. Created in 1946–47, the outlaw’s story is distilled into a visual narrative in which the Australian landscape plays a key role.
Feb 1, 2022 · Nolan’s 1940s paintings on the theme of the 19th-century bushranger Ned Kelly are one of the most iconic series of Australian paintings of the 20th century.
The Ned Kelly series is seen as one of the greatest sequences of Australian paintings of the 20th century. His simplified portrayal of Kelly in his armor has become an iconic Australian image...
Sidney Nolan’s Ned kelly series This resource includes: • 1 overview card, which includes a Kelly helmet viewfinder • 1 card with teachers notes and curriculum links • 8 paintings from Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series each accompanied by activities for discussion, art-making and inquiry.
From 1946–47, Nolan developed an original and starkly simplified image of Ned Kelly, which quickly became a national symbol—part of the shared iconography of Australia. The NGA acquired its first Ned Kelly work from the series in 1972, Death of Sergeant Kennedy at Stringybark Creek 1946.
Mar 2, 2019 · This selection of works drawn primarily from the Gallery’s collection reveals the materials, processes and subjects that were of interest to Sidney Nolan in the years following his acclaimed Kelly series of enamel paintings from 1946 – 47.
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Nolan’s Ned Kelly series is a distillation of a complex, layered story set in the Victorian landscape and centred around. were on the run from the police. Landscape is a key element in the paintings—as Nolan said, ‘it began in the landsca. e and ended in the landscape .
