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James Timothy Gleeson

James Timothy Gleeson (1915 - 2008) was active/lived in Australia.  James Gleeson is known for Surrealist painting of the subconcious, mythology or religions, collage.

James Timothy Gleeson (21 November 1915 – 20 October 2008) was an Australian artist. He served on the board of the National Gallery of Australia. He was born in the Sydney district of Hornsby in 1915 and attended East Sydney Technical College from 1934 to 1936.

In 1938 Gleeson studied at Sydney Teachers College, where he gained two years training in general primary school teaching. Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, André Masson, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung became major influence in Gleeson's artwork.

Gleeson's themes generally delved into the subconscious using literary, mythological or religious subject matter. He was particularly interested in Jung's archetypes of the collective unconscious.

In 1944 Gleeson created The Sower, referencing Jean-François Millet’s 1850 painting of the same title. Rather than showing a landscape with a conglomerate main figure, Gleeson presents an eerie twentieth-century view of a desolated one. He commented on the work's genesis as   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3935 characters.]  Artist bio

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