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My title borrows from the literary critic Harold Bloom. It speaks to the influence of artistic predecessors. Each of the three paintings in my collage here are linked artistically.

The most important early colonial painter in Van Diemen's Land was undoubtedly John Glover (1767-1849). I've told his story elsewhere so you can look it up.
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At the top is Glover's "The Last Muster of Tasmanian Aborigines at Risdon 1836". Risdon is in the south near Hobart, and strangely enough today is the site of the modern prison. It is not unlike another of his works painted at Mills Plains (northern Tasmania) in 1836. www.flickr.com/photos/luminosity7/50571363822/in/album-72...

Now from the time of his arrival in the colony as a free settler (1825) Van Diemen's Land was on the verge of a declaration of martial law. Glover was granted land and a group of convicts to work it for him. Of course the land itself had already been cleared of most of its aboriginal inhabitants. But Glover's paintings, where they show aborigines, are always sympathetic, and perhaps Glover himself is simply beholden to the Romantic notion of the "noble savage".

In taking the photograph of Glover's painting I intentionally wanted to get my own shadow reflected on the glass. That's me with my camera on a tripod. Why? Because, despite the fact I have nothing personally to do with the horrific treatment of the original inhabitants of this land, this historic shadow falls across my path and that of every one of Australia's immigrant settlers.

Ben Quilty understands this in his 2018 painting titled, "Development Application (John Glover)". Now Ben Quilty is an official Australian war artist, having served in covering the war in Afghanistan. www.flickr.com/photos/luminosity7/52657370516/in/album-72...
John Glover's farm at Patterdale was built on land that had been cleared of its original inhabitants during the Black War.

At the bottom right is a very different abstract kind of landscape by local artist Robyn McKinnon. It is called, "Mr Glover's Antipodean Garden, 2007". Now look at Glover's original work. www.agsa.sa.gov.au/collection-publications/collection/wor...
This is quite possibly Glover's most idyllic painting, clearly showing how much he had grown to love the land around Mills Plains in the ten years he'd spent in the colony.

Robyn McKinnon has certainly captured the beauty of Glover's garden, but it is a little wilder than he might have imagined.

* Each of these photographs were taken with my Nikon D850.

Taken in: Australia / Tasmania / Launceston (show map)

Taken on: June 15, 2023

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The Anxiety of Influence

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