Australian Landscape III 1969-1970

  

gouache 56.6 x 76.4 cm

    
      In the Australian landscape series, Williams' work since the You Yangs is brought to its natural conclusion. These are consummative works, in which Williams refines the themes and concerns of several years work, but they also spell the end of Williams' minimalist approach to landscape painting. The landscape here is reduced to a symbolic code depicted with minute brushstrokes and seen from an immense aerial perspective. Painted on long vertical dividing panels, a sense of the epic yet fundamentally delicate nature of the bush is achieved.    
             

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