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Criss Canning: The Pursuit of Beauty

By David Thomas

AUD $99.00

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FORMAT: Hard Cover

Criss Canning is one of Australia's finest painter of still life, her enthrallment with beauty finding a natural outlet in the imagery of flowers. Extraordinary in their botanical accuracy, they more than flirt with exactitude, yet embrace the aesthetic rather than the scientific. For Canning's colour laden brush, science is the handmaiden of art. Her artistic journey from the naturalism of captured moments of feminine enchantment to the boldly minimalist celebrations of colour in her latest works is the subject of this book. As enchanting as any fictional tale of romance is her life at Burnside, in Central Victoria where environment, flowers, lovers and art come together as one beautiful whole

Publisher:

Macmillan

Pages:

208

Related Artists:

John Olsen
Criss Canning: The Pursuit of Beauty