Tommy Mcrae's drawings are often viewed as an important window into Australian history...
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Tommy Mcrae's drawings are often viewed as an important window into Australian history... (and they are) but I just like the composition and style.
Tommy McRae
McRae's early life was intertwined with the rich traditions of carving and weaving, skills that would later inform his approach to drawing. His sketches, characterised by their fluid lines and attention to detail, depict scenes of Aboriginal daily life, ceremonial dances, and interactions with European settlers.
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Tommy Mcrae's drawings are often viewed as an important window into Australian history... (and they are) but I just like the composition and style.
Tommy McRae
McRae's early life was intertwined with the rich traditions of carving and weaving, skills that would later inform his approach to drawing. His sketches, characterised by their fluid lines and attention to detail, depict scenes of Aboriginal daily life, ceremonial dances, and interactions with European settlers.
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@futurebird pretty sure that emu is on to them.
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Tommy Mcrae's drawings are often viewed as an important window into Australian history... (and they are) but I just like the composition and style.
Tommy McRae
McRae's early life was intertwined with the rich traditions of carving and weaving, skills that would later inform his approach to drawing. His sketches, characterised by their fluid lines and attention to detail, depict scenes of Aboriginal daily life, ceremonial dances, and interactions with European settlers.
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@futurebird the birds are unmistakably Emu. Very well done.
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@futurebird the birds are unmistakably Emu. Very well done.
The uncertainty is me not knowing my giant birds.
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The uncertainty is me not knowing my giant birds.
@futurebird come on, there's only 10 or 20 thousand species of birds, and probably less than 100 that are "giant". Much easier than ants. Ok, I don't know them all either. Emu is just one of the few I do know. : )
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Tommy Mcrae's drawings are often viewed as an important window into Australian history... (and they are) but I just like the composition and style.
Tommy McRae
McRae's early life was intertwined with the rich traditions of carving and weaving, skills that would later inform his approach to drawing. His sketches, characterised by their fluid lines and attention to detail, depict scenes of Aboriginal daily life, ceremonial dances, and interactions with European settlers.
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There is a kind of alternative sophistication to his art. It's a very refined visual style, instantly recognizable and evocative. But, drawing on this whole other set of visual conventions that aren't as common outside of Australia.
His drawings always have the feeling of something about to happen.
I especially love the detail in the plants.
More Drawings:
Sketchbook of Aboriginal drawings by Tommy McRae
Drawing book containing 18 pen and ink sketches by Aborigine artist Tommy McRae, featuring scenes from Aboriginal life including hunting emu and kangaroo, the corroboree [ceremonial dance], fishing, duels, an ambush, wildlife scenes including iguana climbing trees, possum in a gum tree. With notes by WH Lang including an introduction: 'Drawings made by a Black fellow at Corowa, New South Wales, June 1886. His name I do not know. By the whites he goes by the name of Tommy Macrae...He is quite self-taught at drawing'. Lang comments on a great commotion one night at Corowa when McRae brought his wife to Lang, surrounded by a pack of dogs and children, after she had been bitten by a snake.
(collections.st-andrews.ac.uk)
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@futurebird pretty sure that emu is on to them.
"Did that bush move, Harold?"
"No! Don't be silly!"
