After a study tour abroad he adopted the idea of "plein-air" (open-air) Impressionistic painting and applied its theories of light and colour to the depiction of the Australian landscape.
Along with three other artists, Arthur Streeton, Frederick McCubbin and Charles Conder, he established what was later to become known as the Heidelberg School or Australian Impressionism. The artists set up camp at Box Hill, Mentone, and later Heidelberg in Victoria in order to practice the new Impressionistic techniques out-of-doors.
We've covered the following paintings for our artist study. All images are taken from The Athenaeum. The paintings became a little blurred when I enlarged them here, unfortunately, but I gave up trying to reduce them as I kept messing up the titles and couldn't get them matched up to the actual paintings. Technology is not my strong point.
Information on Tom Roberts: Handbook of Art by Graham Hopwood and Great Australian Paintings - a Landsdowne publication.
Bailed Up, 1895
Break Away! 1891
'A' Battery Field Artillery, NSW. 1896
Wood Splitters, 1886
Holiday Sketch at Coogee, 1888
In a Corner of the Macintyre, 1895
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