James Clifford
James Clifford (1936–1987) was an Australian painter who borrowed styles from other artists, in the manner of psychedelic rock music artists who came after the major pop artists and were forerunners of the postmodern appropriation movement of the 1980s. James Clifford was born in Muswellbrook, New South Wales in 1936 and in the sixties moved to Sydney, where he studied with Desiderius Orban and exhibited at Watters Gallery. He worked in various styles and became distinctive early on, combining Hard-edge painting with landscape and seascape painting in kaleidoscopic perspectives, tropical landscapes, Art Nouveau borders and the surrealism of Gordon Onslow Ford, later incorporating collage, occasionally text art, Decalcomania.
James Clifford
- Born
- 1936 · Sydney.
- Died
- 1987
- Nationality
- Australia
- Occupation
- painter
- Movements
- abstract expressionism
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James Clifford (1936–1987) was an Australian painter who borrowed styles from other artists, in the manner of psychedelic rock music artists who came after the major pop artists and were forerunners of the postmodern appropriation movement of the 1980s. James Clifford was born in Muswellbrook, New South Wales in 1936 and in the sixties moved to Sydney, where he studied with Desiderius Orban and exhibited at Watters Gallery. He worked in various styles and became distinctive early on, combining Hard-edge painting with landscape and seascape painting in kaleidoscopic perspectives, tropical landscapes, Art Nouveau borders and the surrealism of Gordon Onslow Ford, later incorporating collage, occasionally text art, Decalcomania.
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Born at Sydney in 1936, died in 1987.
Work by James Clifford is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales and National Gallery of Australia.
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1936
James Clifford born at Sydney.
1987
James Clifford died.
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- 1.Germaine, Max. Artists and Galleries of Australia.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 11
- Catalano, Gary. The Years of Hope
- Horton, Mervyn. Present Day Art in Australia. Ure Smith 1969
- Legge, Geoffrey. Ralph Balson and James Clifford
- Legge, Geoffrey A Growing Reputation.
- Lindsay, Robert. (ed) The Seventies. Australian Paintings and Tapestries from the collection of National Australia Bank. National Bank of Australasia Limited. 1982 Melbourne.
- Meacham, Steve. Art experts ponder why White knew what he liked. The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 September 2004.
- Smith, Bernard. Australian Painting
- Verity Hewitt, Helen. Patrick White, Painter Manque
- Paddy's Pictures by Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Australian Book Review March 2003
- Westwood, Matthew. Legacy of a Gifted Man, The Australian. 12 March 2009
- Yang, William. Patrick White: The Late Years
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