Episode of Series “The Painters, the sculptors: archival art series”.
Robert Klippel is viewed as one of Australia’s most important artists of the fifties and sixties. His humble beginnings (and obsession) with ship modelmaking was to influence and inform his work throughout his career as an artist. Klippel was a self-taught artist whose interest sprung from the processes he’d developed while model building, a scale which was to continue in his work throughout his career. Klippel had a strong preference for the solid built form of sculpture but found his work naturally becoming more linear in style. His developed language in the fifties and his need for intellectual peers saw him travel to Europe and New York to again resettle in Sydney, Australia where he developed strong artistic allies and his notoriety as an abstract expressionist artist along with Olsen and Passmore. This documentary charts Klippel’s role in a developing cultural nation.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
315205
Language
English
Subject categories
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Ship models
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art - Themes, motives
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art, Abstract
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art, Modern - 20th century
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art, Modern - 20th century - Australia
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art, Modern - 20th century - History
Crafts & Visual Arts → Artists - Australia
Crafts & Visual Arts → Arts - Australia
Crafts & Visual Arts → Klippel, Robert, 1920-
Crafts & Visual Arts → Models and modelmaking
Crafts & Visual Arts → Sculpture
Crafts & Visual Arts → Sculpture, Australian
Crafts & Visual Arts → Sculpture, Modern - 20th century - History
Crafts & Visual Arts → Sculpture, Modern - Australia
Documentary → Documentary films - Australia
Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Ship models
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)
MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan
MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - presentation
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - presentation
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI External Digital Access Copy