Description Rainforest I is a classic example of John Coburn's hard-edged colour field painting of the late sixties. Part of the appeal of these paintings lies in the artist's audacity...
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1973 Description The lyrical colours and playful shapes of Aubusson Green float over a field of clear bright green. Aubusson green is the colour of a special paint colour made...
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1990 Description Coburn developed his own language that paid homage to Aboriginal Art and the Australian outback. Neither borrowing or imitating, he stayed within his Western art tradition, at the...
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1974 Description John Coburn has long been recognised as one of, if not, Australia's finest designer of tapestries. His magnificent Curtain of the Sun 1971 and Curtain of the Moon...
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1968 Description Form without content was one of the trends emphasised in the art of the 1960s. Coburn's art has never been without content but a lot of painting at...
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1979 Description Coburn's Transfiguration is a large semi-religious oil painting with a richly decorative background of gold leaf. It combines two of Coburn’s constant themes — a celebration of the...
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