Talk:Clarice Beckett

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thanks[edit]

thanks from WiRed Victuallers (talk) 22:33, 30 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nationality[edit]

It appears that Clarice's nationality really is Australian. If there is a dispute on this, please discuss here. - Chris.sherlock (talk) 12:44, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Amalgamating sections[edit]

Why is there a section on Australian tonalism and also a section Work and style? Unless anyone objects, and since Beckett practiced and extended tonalism and it is central to her work, not something separate, I'll go ahead and put the two together under Work and style, and retain the link to the main article on Aust. tonalism. Jamesmcardle^(talk) 05:18, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

For the same reason Monet has a Biography subsection titled "Impressionism", and another section on Method. Beckett's link to Meldrum and adoption of his tonalist system warrants its own subsection. Right now it's really a placeholder until the Life section expands further, then it can be split into more precise subsections. - HappyWaldo (talk) 05:54, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That's appropriate - Monet is quintessentially an Impressionist, Beckett less easy to pigeonhole. Posthumous research and critical examination by Hollinrake, Borlase, McCaughey, Lock and McAuliffe, and Leason writing in her lifetime, place Beckett as more than a Tonalist; they classify her as a Modernist, with Tonalist training which she adapted, rather than merely 'adopted.' Hollinrake, Lock and others' discovery and investigation of her connection via Jorgensen and others to theosophy confirm that rather than practicing a 'scientific' transcription of the subject as did the Tonalists, her concern, beyond 'Method' was with transmitting a spiritual/psychological experience. An additional heading 'Modernist' would thus be appropriate. Jamesmcardle^(talk) 22:07, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Reception[edit]

Beckett is distinguished amongst Australian artists by the radical change in critical reaction to her work. During her lifetime it was generally denigrated, and there are multiple contemporaneous news and journal sources to be cited supporting that perception, but since, even quite early after her death in the case of George Bell, she began to be accepted as having achieved a unique approach, especially to colour in form, departing significantly from the Meldrum Tonalism. A section titled 'Critical reception,' 'Recognition' or the like devoted to that contrast in response could directly address that contrast. Do other editors agree? Jamesmcardle^(talk) 06:34, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]