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1. Born in Adelaide in 1875, this modernist artist is well known for dramatically coloured oil paintings as well as wood-cut and lino-cut prints of Australian flowers and birds.
2. Born in Melbourne in 1917, this modernist painter is particularly famous for a series of 27 naive paintings of the life of Ned Kelly, Australia's most notorious bushranger.
3. Born in 1920 in Melbourne, this semi-abstract expressionist artist from an artistic family worked in painting, pottery and printmaking. This artist also painted a ground-breaking series of paintings, these were the very political "Love, Marriage and Death of a Half-Caste".
4. Born in Sydney in 1939, this expressionist artist is well-known for his large body of work carried out in the 1970s. His work has distinctive curvaceous lines, and is influenced by the work of his contemporary, Francis Bacon, and Japanese pen and ink drawing. Sadly, this artist suicided in 1992.
5. Born in 1902 in Hermannsburg in the Northern Territory, this Aranda nation artist was the first nationally-recognised Aboriginal artist in Australia. This artist did not paint in a traditional Aboriginal style, but painted watercolour landscapes.
6. "The Heidelberg School" was the first recognised Australian "school" of painters, called so because they painted outdoor scenery in Heidelberg (which is now a suburb of Melbourne). Which of these artists was not part of this group?
7. Born in Germany in 1877, this landscape artist migrated with his family to South Australia at the age of 6. He is famous for his golden water colours of gum trees; he became known as the "Champion of the Trees" for his fights to preserve endangered trees.
8. Born in 1912 in England, this artist moved to Australia at the age of 11. Noted for realist, expressionist and surrealist paintings of Australian country towns, his work is typified by an elongated perspective and strong use of oranges and ochres.
9. Born in Victoria in 1879, this artist began professional artistic life as an illustrator and cartoonist for "The Bulletin". While most famous for etchings, this artist also painted and sculpted many classical works of nude nymphs, mermaids and maidens, which shocked the conservative Australian art-lovers of the day.
10. Born in Sydney in 1911, this photographer worked in commercial photography for many years. Particularly well known for modernist iconic compositions at beachside locations around Sydney, this photographer featured high contrast between sunlight and shade and unusual photographic angles.
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