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J. R. Tranthim-Fryer
John Robertson Tranthim-Fryer (1858 – 13 July 1928) was an Australian Sculpture, sculptor and Teacher, educator, the first director of what became Victoria's Swinburne Technical College. History Tranthim-Fryer was born John Robertson Fryer in Hobart, Tasmania, the only son of James Robertson Fryer (c. 1825 – 5 February 1897), a Hobart merchant, and his wife Marianne Delve Fryer, née Briant (died 12 December 1894). They had a home, "Alverstoke,” in West Hobart, Tasmania, West Hobart. He showed an early interest in art, which was encouraged by William Schuetz (died 1905), a Hobart artist. In 1884, as J. R. Fryer, jun., he took art classes under Achille Simonetti and Lucien Henry at the Sydney Technical College, in which he was highly successful, winning a scholarship for a further two years' training. culminating in 1889 with a qualification from the South Kensington institution. Thus accredited, in June 1890 he was appointed secretary of Tasmania's Technical Education Boar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sculpture
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramic art, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or Molding (process), moulded or Casting, cast. Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works (other than pottery) from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely. However, most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
