JOHN COBURN Australia 1925-2006
John Coburn's art is amongst the most highly recognised in Australian art, distinguished by his symbolistic paintings, tapestries and screenprints. His commissions included two large tapestries for the Sydney Opera House and seven tapestries for the John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington, DC. In his formative years, Coburn was influenced by the vividly coloured abstract works emerging through the Modernist movements in Europe; Cubist works by Pablo Picasso and Fauvist works by Henri Matisse. He was drawn to the Abstract Expressionist movement in America, particularly inspired by the work of Mark Rothko who was developing philosophies that pursued pure abstraction, where colour and form was no longer dependent on the mythologies or motifs that dominated his earlier work, drawing more to the symbolism and philosophies of Eastern and Western religions. His works can be seen in a separatist viewpoint; religious spirituality and the spiritual essence of nature.
John COBURN Australia 1925-2006
The Burning 1991 Lithograph AP
Printed by Fred Genis
570 x 990 image size
$3,500
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John COBURN Australia 1925-2006
Burning Land 1991 Lithograph AP
Printed by Fred Genis edition of 20
565 x 650 image size
$ 3000
John COBURN Australia 1925-2006
Tree of Life 1998 Screenprint AP
500 x 690 image size
500 x 690 paper size
$2500
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