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Shearing the Rams

Tom Roberts

Shearing the Rams

Tom Roberts
  • Date: 1890; Corowa, New South Wales; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia  
  • Style: Impressionism
  • Genre: genre painting
  • Media: oil, board, canvas
  • Location: National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne, Australia
  • Dimensions: 122.4 x 183.3 cm
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For Indigenous Australians, the bush has long held sacred associations that are central to their identity. In stark contrast, Australia's early colonists regarded the bush as an unfamiliar and at times threatening place, to be cleared or transfigured in keeping with European sensibilities.

As the colonies grew into established cities and towns, attitudes changed. By 1891, two-thirds of the population was living in cities, yet it was the bush and bush life that colonial settlers regarded as uniquely Australian and integral to the nation's identity.

Bush characters - the pioneer settlers, shearers, swagmen and mountain horsemen - came to represent an emerging national character. They were seen as resilient and stoic, despite or because of the hardships offered up by their environment.

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Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shearing_the_Rams
Shearing the rams | Tom ROBERTS | NGV | View Work: www.ngv.vic.gov.au
Shearing the rams | Tom ROBERTS | NGV | View Work: www.ngv.vic.gov.au
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