Question:
Has Margaret Preston influenced modern art?
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Margaret Preston is one of Australia's most influential modernists.
Margaret Preston lived in Sydney for forty years. Over the 1920s and 30s her art became synonymous with the city and its harbour - her bright exuberant paintings and woodblock prints depicting landmarks of the city; Circular Quay, the Harbour bridge, and the coves and corners of Mosman where she lived. Sydney's flora and fauna also became consistent features of her still-lifes. She was influenced particularly by the colour print-makers of the Japanese Ukiyo-e ('Floating world') movement, by European post-impressionism, and by the great traditions of Chinese landscape painting, and worked to synthesise these elements in her art.