Born in Scotland from 1891 to 1974, Feldwirt began painting with the utmost enthusiasm when he became a prisoner of war in World War I, and during that time he taught himself Chinese and became interested in life in East Asia. Fervet began working with Australian artists in the 1930s, and later traveled for many years in China, Bali and other regions of the Far East, eventually settling in Australia.
The painter spent many years of seclusion on the island of Borebi, north of Brisbane, and his interest in calligraphy and Chinese characters inspired the artist's art, who shifted from creating tonal figures to a more linear style and temperate use of color. In the 1950s, Fervert began to create large-scale works, no longer using thick pastels on inferior materials, but instead turning to polymer paints, often mixed with pastels.
At the end of the 1950s, Fervert sent 36 abstract paintings to Markele, which received a good response and later became the basis for The Abbey, which won the McCauger Prize: The Epiphany, which Fervetter considered his best work, was completed the following year. The National Gallery of Australia purchased The Abbey, considered by many to be a masterpiece, and the painting embodies the influence of Cubism and Also reflects Fervert's interest in calligraphy.
The Australian artist Gleason said The Abbey was "an unusual, fantastical mix of European painting traditions and Chinese calligraphy". The Abbey cemented Feldwirt's reputation as one of Australia's greatest artists. Also in the 20th century, Crane's (1910-1962) oil painting Rough is the same as Fervet's Abbey, mixing European painting traditions with Chinese calligraphy, and the style of painting is the same.
Born in Wilkes, Pennsylvania, Crane was traumatized as a child, his father committed suicide in 1917 and his mother subsequently remarried, and he spent several years in a nonprofit for children without parents. This period of time was called the "orphan period" by later artists. When Crane was in high school, he became interested in art, and after a recovery period from an accident that kept him temporarily inactive, Crane began to paint.
Fervet's "Abbey"
In 1931 he began formal artistic training in Boston, and in 1935 he went abroad to England to study at the Hasseli Academy of Fine Arts in London. The painter's early artistic career was mainly to create figurative works, and after returning to the United States, he used a soft expressionist approach to depict realist urban landscapes. De Koonin influenced Crane deeply. In the late 1940s, Crane began to adopt an extremely abstract style—a complete farewell to his early figurative work.
Crane's "Rough"
Rough belongs to a large series of works by the painter, which is characterized by strong black and white linear forms and bold compositions, Crane uses huge chemical brushes to achieve wide, rapid black brushes, forming rhythmic cages and pockets of white space on the plane of the painting, and his abstract works received good response after being exhibited at the Egan Gallery in 1950 – before which the painter's art was not successful – and he has since been recognized by the public.
His work is very unique and distinctive, and Crane belongs to the forefront of the Movement of Abstract Expressionism. However, the Scottish artist Fervert looked at Crane's Rough Oil painting and said, "This is simply a waste of art, a guy who misleads people's children, such paintings, children should not appreciate, such painters, children can not learn from him, otherwise they will not learn from him." The whole painting took only three strokes and should not have such a good response. ”