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Article: Buvelot, the migrant artist: interpreting new worlds in Brazil and Australia.(Louis Buvelot)(Biography)
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- The La Trobe Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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LOUIS BUVELOT (1814-1888) is considered an outstanding landscape painter by art lovers and critics in both Brazil and Australia. Even more remarkable is that he was so regarded by those amongst whom he lived and worked in each country: in Brazil between 1835-1852 and in Australia from 1865 to his death in 1888. Despite this fact, his creativity in both New World countries is rarely compared, either during his lifetime or subsequently.
As a painter Buvelot celebrated nature, illuminating his observations with truth, light and colour. His paintings of the Brazilian and Australian landscapes reflect these similar characteristics. While schooled in the European ...