Max Meldrum b. 3 December 1875

Also known as Duncan Max Meldrum
  • Artist (Painter)
After winning a National Gallery School Travelling Scholarship and moving to Paris to study, Scottish-born painter Max Meldrum found himself out of sympathy with the academic theories being taught and soon abandoned formal study. He nevertheless made a name for himself as a most influential artist and teacher with his controversial theory of painting as a pure science, a science of optical analysis.
Tags: Tonalism
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Meldrum School of Painting
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References [<ExternalResource: 'National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT'.>, <ExternalResource: McGrath, Joyce and Smith, Bernard (1986), 'Meldrum, Duncan Max'.>, <ExternalResource: Thomas, D., North, I., & McCarthy F. (1972), 'The Australian Landscape'.>, <ExternalResource: Perry, Peter and John (1996), 'Max Meldrum & Associates', Castlemaine, Vic. : Castlemaine Gallery and Historical Museum.>, <ExternalResource: Meldrum, Max (1950), 'The science of appearances as formulated and taught by Max Meldrum', Sydney, NSW : The Shepherd Press.>, <ExternalResource: Colahan, Colin (ed.) (1919), 'Max Meldrum: his art and views', Melbourne, Vic. : Alexander McCubbin.>] [<ExternalResource: 'National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT'.>, <ExternalResource: McGrath, Joyce and Smith, Bernard (1986), 'Meldrum, Duncan Max'.>, <ExternalResource: Thomas, D., North, I., & McCarthy F. (1972), 'The Australian Landscape'.>]