Margaret Preston

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Elizabeth Butel. Margaret Preston

INTRODUCTION

1875–1920

1920–1930

1924–1963

NOTES

1875-1920

1920-1930

1924-1963

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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MARGARET PRESTON

ELIZABETH BUTEL

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Overcoming her nausea she sought enlightenment through the study of Japanese art at the Musée Guimet and learnt ‘slowly that there is more than one vision in art.’8 Her advances over her Australian contemporaries have, in part, been attributed to this study of the art that directly influenced Post-Impressionism, rather than to her analysis of Post-Impressionism itself. Returning to South Australia she resumed her teaching and her personal explorations, saving all the while ‘to be able to make a dash back to Paris to see if she had moved a little’.9 This she did in 1912, consolidating her earlier lessons by an eight-year stay in Europe and England, which allowed her to experience the fierce, non-realistic colour and bold, apparently crude draughtsmanship of the Fauvists. Precision of design was now aided by the decorative possibilities of colour and she wrote to the painter Norman Carter from the Ile de Noirmoutier, a small island off the coast of France, south of Brittany, in 1913:

I am very interested to hear of your decorative work – it is the only thing worth aiming at for this our century. It’s really the keynote of everything – I’m trying all I know to reduce my still-life to decorations and find it fear-fully difficult ... now I know what you are exploring you can expect missives from me from time to time as I am more interested in this part of our Art than any other.’10

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