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David Goldblatt (1930-2018) was born in South Africa , the grandson of Lithuanian refugees who fled their homeland in 1893. Goldblatt worked in his father's men's wear shop and graduated from the Uni­versity of the Witwatersrand with a commerce degree. He lived in Johannesburg where he began photographing in 1948 and documenting devel­op­ments in Apartheid South Africa. Goldblatt grew up during the rise of the National Party. When the Party came to power in 1948, the Nationals began implementing Apartheid policies that marginalised non-white South Africans. In this difficult political environment, young Goldblatt dev­eloped an interest in photography-focused magazines like Life  and wanted to become a magazine photographer. Then, when the African National Congress became active in their struggle against Apart­heid, the editor of Picture Post asked him to photograph ANC meetings. Young men with dompas the identity document that every black South African had to carry, 1972. A ...

The Chase School of Art opened to students in 1896 and two years later it became the New Yorker School of Art . New Yorker Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) enrolled in art classes at this school in 1908. Two years later, in 1910, he left high school to study art at The National Academy of Design and then The Art Stud­ents League . Thomas Fogarty and George Bridg­man were excellent teachers, preparing Rockwell for professional commissions. No Swimming, 1921 Saturday Evening Post While still very young, Rockwell was hired as art director of Boys’ Life , the publication of the American Boy Scouts, and illustrated a range of young people’s publications. In New Rochelle, Rockwell set up a studio with a cartoonist and produced work for such magazines as Life , Literary Digest and Coun­t­ry Gentleman . In 1916, 22-year-old Rockwell painted his first cov­er for The Saturday Evening Post , and for five decades, 321 Rockwell more covers appeared on the front of the Post. The 1930s and 1940s were s...

La Belle Epoque in Paris was time of peace, scientific prog­ress, prosperity and leisure, at least for those with money. Four events in the later C19th led to si­g­nificant chan­ges in how Parisians lived: 1] Paris’s C19th layout was redesigned by Baron Haus­smann on behalf of Nap­oleon III , to beautify the city. Between 1852-72, Haus­s­mann demolish­ed medieval roads, built wide boulevards and elegant buildings, surroun­ded by greenery. 2] the destructive Franco Prussian war of 1870-1 ended. 3] arrival of the rail­ways by the mid C19th meant French­men could travel anywhere! And the Paris Metro opened in 1900, with the elegant Art Nouveau décor. 4] The 1889 World Fair & Eif­fel Tower were a major stimulus to French and foreign tourism. Cafe life arrived. Moulin Rouge, with its windmill vanes opened in Montmartre in 1889. Moulin Rouge interior, 1898 Great galleries and museums were created to display the treas­ures gathered from across Europe, and Paris became the art capital of ...

Brave New World: Australia 1930s is a special exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV in Melbourne until mid Oct 2017. The 1930s was a turbulent time in Aus­tralia’s history.  Major world events, includ­ing the Depression and the rise of totalitarian regimes in Europe, shap­ed our nation’s evolving sense of identity during this decade. See a multitude of art­istic styles, both progressive and reactionary, which were practised during the 1930s: fash­ion, commercial art, architecture, industrial design, film and dance. The exhibition presents a  detailed picture of this dynamic time and reveals some of the social and political concerns that were pertinent then. The life saver and the Sydney Harbour Bridge Celebrating the bridge's opening in 1932 The exhibition charts the themes of technological pro­g­ress and its antithesis in the nostalgia for pastoralism; the emer­gence of the New Woman; nationalism and the body culture movement; mounting calls for Indigenous rights and th...