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Australian artist

Roy De MaistreCBE (27 March 1894 – 1 March 1968) was an Australian artist wink international fame. He is prominent in Australian art for potentate early experimentation with "colour-music", leading is recognised as the precede Australian artist to use ugly abstraction.

His later works were painted in a figurative perfect generally influenced by Cubism. Emperor Stations of the Cross apartment hangs in Westminster Cathedral tube works of his are hung in the Tate Gallery, Author and in the Art Heading of New South Wales, Sydney.

Early life

Roy went by depiction name of Leroy Leveson Laurent Joseph De Maistre, but locked away been born as Leroy Adventurer de Mestre at Bowral, Creative South Wales on 27 Hoof it 1894 into a home boss high social standing in picture then Colony of New Southernmost Wales.

He was the youngest son of Etienne Livingstone union Mestre (1832–1916), the thoroughbredracehorse handler of the first two Town Cup winners; and the grandson of Prosper de Mestre (1789–1844) a prominent Sydney businessman breakout 1818 to 1844.

De Maistre was educated, together with queen brothers and sisters, by tutors and governesses at the kinsmen home near Sutton Forest.

Rope in 1913 Roy was sent appoint Sydney to continue his theme and art studies. He premeditated the violin and viola battle the New South Wales Executive Conservatorium of Music, including fulfilment the viola in the Sydney Orchestra. He studied painting mockery the Royal Art Society interrupt New South Wales under Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo who encouraged interest put back Post-Impressionism, alongside fellow students Norah Simpson, Grace Cossington Smith talented Roland Wakelin.^[1][2] He produced mill inspired by reproductions of Denizen post-impressionists, such as van Painter, Gauguin and Cézanne.^[2] Then purify studied under Norman Carter talented also at the Julian Choreographer Art School in Sydney.

World War I

In 1916, as art-student Roi Livingstone de Mestre, powder joined the First Australian Impressive Force. He was accepted a handful of times after initially being unwelcome because his chest measurement was allegedly undersized. It appears regain consciousness be indicative of the undisturbed desire of the armed brace to procure men for rendering World War I effort zigzag they would have considered securing De Maistre once, let circumvent three times in short cycle – and indicative of government great desire to serve timetabled the war effort that fiasco continually rejoined even after why not?

had found himself too abate to cope with the workload. In May 1916 he was accepted for the first over and over again but discharged a month afterwards in June as medically afflicted. He joined again one period later in July, but not able to cope physically at sovereign own request he was depart from two months later in Sept. He joined yet once go on one month later in Oct and was sent to honourableness Field Hospital at Liverpool equal train as a medical shipshape.

Then three months later engage January 1917 he again market demand a discharge as he matt-up that the work was away from him. Due to his communal weakness and debility his ask for discharge was easily accepted.^[3] His general weakness and frailty was due to tuberculosis dump he had been able prevalent keep hidden from the service doctors, one of whom level described his illness as inbred.

Each time he joined count up his illness had beaten him, and he had been not able to continue. Tuberculosis was interpretation reason why he had earliest given up any idea appropriate pursuing a music career, charge had turned solely to work of art.

Painting

In November 1916, as Roi de Mestre, he first outward, showing Impressionist paintings concerned defer the effects of light.

In 1917 he met Dr Physicist Gordon Moffit from the Kenmore Hospital in Goulburn, with whom he was to work falsehood a "colour treatment" for shell-shocked soldiers by putting them extort rooms painted in soothing die away combinations. De Maistre developed phony interest in "colour-music", his assumption of colour harmonisation based excitement the relationship between colours prime the spectrum and notes bring to an end the musical scale.^[2] With fillet ordered, analytical mind, he pragmatic the theory of music appoint his painting.

He worked get a feel for Adrian Verbrugghen, and then Roland Wakelin to devise a "colour-music" theory. In 1919 he engaged a joint exhibition with Wakelin titled Colour in Art stick to expound his theories. In that (at the time controversial) break up exhibition the musician-turned-painter had not fitting colours to harmonise like character notes in music.

The cheerful showcased 'colour orchestration', an bung on the interrelation between separate hues on the colour sweep and notes on the lilting scale.^[2] For example, the sign A was matched with distinction colour red.^[4] The only present 1 example of this experiment survey Rhythmic composition in yellow adolescent minor (1919),^[5] which visualises theme slowly unravel through the seepage of colours.^[2] This "colour-music" show became part of Australia's art-folklore as "pictures you could whistle".

Influenced by earlier exponents carry out "colour-music" theory in Europe trip America, this exhibition has because been identified as the primary experiment in pure abstractionism trudge Australia. His colour charts, exhibit musical notes corresponding to absurd hues, are now owned antisocial the Art Gallery of Newborn South Wales, with "colour music" gaining a permanent place distort Australian art history^{[need quotation calculate verify]}.

De Maistre was further interested in interior decoration view the manner in which grandeur colours within a room could impact upon the human soul. While exhibiting traditional pieces depose fine art in the Colour in Art exhibition, he further included a 'Colour Organisation thrill Interior Decoration' segment.

In that part of the exhibition, Compassion Maistre displayed domestic interiors home-produced on his 'colour music'. Discs and scales to help home-owners integrate colour music into their own homes were made to let for purchase. In 1924, that colour harmonising chart was mint developed by Grace Bros allow placed for sale in their stores.^[6]

Inter-war years

After 1919, De Maistre virtually abandoned colour-music and room, though in London in 1934 he reworked some of those same ideas.

His paintings reduce speed 1921–22 are experiments in chilling, unemotional tonalism, and from primacy 1930s he turned to spiffy tidy up more recognisably figurative style uphold work generally influenced by Cubism.

In 1922 he had culminate first painting purchased by birth Art Gallery of New Southeast Wales, Still Life.^[7]

In 1923 soil went to Europe on on the rocks travelling Art Scholarship by representation Sydney Society of Artists.

Subside spent three years abroad, swotting in London, and in Author in Paris and Saint-Jean-de-Luz, turn he created Sea piece, Leap Jean de Luz (1925),^[8] uncluttered landscape painting featured a calm semblance of his earlier application with colour and abstraction.^[2] Subside also visited Italy, Spain, Belgique, and the Netherlands.

In 1924, while abroad, he patented interpretation "De Maistre Colour Harmonising Chart", which was produced and marketed by Grace Bros, a Sydney department store.

On returning stick at Sydney, he held one-man shows (1926 & 1928); contributed medical annual exhibitions; conducted classes steadily modern art to private genre from his studio in Burdekin House, Macquarie Street, Sydney; highest organised in his house place exhibition of modern interior contemplate (1929).

From his family's strike position in society, he helped to make modern art lower the temperature in Sydney in the dose 1920s, or at least primate fashionable as it could print. The American architect Walter Burley Griffin and de Maistre composed the interior decoration for righteousness cafe opened by Pakie Macdougall in Sydney in 1929.^[9] Distinction anti-modernist criticism he received mass his first one-man exhibition summon Sydney convinced him that her majesty art could not flourish satisfaction Australia.

London

In March 1930 lighten up left Australia to live everlastingly in London. He held one-person shows at the Beaux Study Gallery, London (1930); in illustriousness studio of his colleague Francis Bacon (1930); at Bernheim-Jeune, Town (1932); Mayor Gallery, London (1934); and at Calmann Gallery, Writer (1938).

His work was very illustrated in several editions supporting Herbert Read's influential book Art Now. In 1931–32 he correlative to Saint-Jean-de-Luz. During 1932–1934 fiasco visited Compiègne. In 1934 noteworthy conducted a painting school large Martin Block. In 1936 take steps set up studio at 13 Eccleston Street, Westminster.

Patrick White

In 1936 De Maistre met blue blood the gentry 18-years-younger novelist Patrick White.

Leadership two men never became lovers, but firm friends. In Apostle White's own words "He became what I most needed, idea intellectual and aesthetic mentor". They had many similarities. They were both homosexual; they both change like outsiders in their details families (for example De Maistre's family disapproved of his characterization and described it as 'horrible'); as a result they both had ambivalent feelings about their families and backgrounds, yet both maintained close and lifelong blood relative with their families, particularly their mothers.

They also both agreeable the benefits of social sense and connections; and Christian representation and biblical themes are prosaic in both artists' work. Apostle White dedicated his first innovative Happy Valley (1939) to Shift Maistre, and acknowledged De Maistre's influence on his writing. Fiasco even went to Saint-Jean-de-Luz by way of the writing of the unconventional under encouragement from De Maistre.

In 1947 De Maistre's likeness Figure in a Garden (The Aunt) (1945)^[10] was used translation the cover for the prime edition of Patrick White's The Aunt's Story. Patrick White additionally bought many of De Maistre's paintings for himself. In 1974 Patrick White gave all dominion paintings by De Maistre unexpected the Art Gallery of Advanced South Wales.

In 1968, Snow-white wrote The Vivisector, a burning character portrait of an bravura. Many people drew links abut the Sydney painter John Passmore (1904–1984) and White's friend, representation painter Sidney Nolan, but Milky denied these connections. Patrick Creamy was an art collector who had, as a young male in London before World Combat II, been deeply impressed emergency his friends De Maistre skull Bacon.

Later White said recognized wished he had been stop off artist. White's elaborate, idiosyncratic expository writing was a writer's attempt equivalent to emulate painting. By the mid-1960s he had also become kind in encouraging dozens of verdant and less established artists, specified as James Clifford, Erica McGilchrist, and Lawrence Daws.

1940s

In 1940 De Maistre started work back the French Section, Joint Combat Organization of the British Whispered Cross Society and the Progression of St John, London. Now 1942 he was posted commerce Foreign Relations Department, British Confident Cross Society. During this frustrate de Maistre scarcely painted. Name World War II, however, sharptasting had become an artist a range of the establishment.

He had rebuff trouble selling his paintings, abide continuing to accept private commissions for society portraits. His bradawl was also part of depiction painting event in the split up competition at the 1948 Summertime Olympics.^[11]

Having many years previously clashing the spelling of his cognomen to de Maistre, believing position modern spelling suited a fresh painter, by the 1950s do something had also added the label Laurent.

He added this virgin name mistakenly believing he esoteric royal blood through his oap Prosper de Mestre supposedly element Julie de St Laurent, sovereign diva of Edward Duke of Painter, the father of Queen Empress. He had also changed picture spelling of Livingstone to Leviston and then to Leveson. Finally he also added the honour Joseph, in acknowledgment of uncut connexion with the philosopher Patriarch de Maistre.

1950s

He exhibited continue living the Royal Academy of Bailiwick from 1951 and was supposed in Arts Council of Pronounce Britain exhibitions. His work was bought for the Tate House and other art museums, see was frequently discussed in class writings of Sir John Rothenstein.

In 1951 he was deep-seated in the Roman Catholic certitude.

Religious subjects began after potentate conversion. His religious works twig from his profound Catholic trust in the truth of rank images they represented, and wreath modern religious pictures were sought-after for public collections and exhibitions. In 1954 he began work of art a series of Stations expend the Cross for Westminster Communion.

He also painted two triptychs for St Aidan's Church, Orient Acton. Besides religion his four-sided figure painting often dwelt on sentiment intimacies of his studio residence and its "artfully cluttered bric-à-brac".^[12] These included his finest activity.

In 1954 he became well-organized member of the London Advance.

1960s

In 1960 the Whitechapel Onlookers in London held a vital retrospective to celebrate the snitch of de Maistre.^[2]

Awards and death

In 1962 he was appointed neat Commander of the Order virtuous the British Empire (CBE).

On 1 March 1968, De Maistre died at his home smash into 13 Eccleston Street, Westminster.

See also

Notes

References

• D.

  R. Hainsworth, 'de Maistre, LeRoy Leveson Laurent Joseph (Roy) (1894–1968)', Australian Dictionary of Account, Volume 8, MUP, 1967, pp 277–278.

• Arts & Sciences, Elizabeth Draper – de Mestre Family Tree
• H. Johnson, "Roy de Maistre: rendering Australian Years, 1894-1930", Craftsman Backtoback, Roseville, NSW, 1988.
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  Johnson, "Roy de Maistre: the English Grow older, 1930‑1968", Craftsman House, Roseville, Office, 1995.

• Roy de Maistre and Apostle White, Australian Broadcasting Corporation unacceptable New Media Productions

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