Rah Fizelle
Figures in landscape
Fizelle, who studied at the Julian Ashton School Sydney, left
for Europe in 1927 to further his studies. On returning to
Australia in 1931 he established an art school in Sydney with Grace
Crowley which aimed to teach the principles of modernist
painting. A frequent theme in Fizelle's work was the
relationship of the human form to the landscape. In a style
reminiscent of the work of both Cezanne and Gauguin, Figures in
landscape portrays two women against a landscape painted in
vibrant hues. Although interested in Cubism, Fizelle never moved on
to pure abstraction but developed a system in which details were
eliminated so that a balance could be achieved.