{"id":127951,"date":"2025-09-08T14:28:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/127951\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T14:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:28:18","slug":"vale-william-robinson-a-pioneer-visionary-of-the-australian-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/127951\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale William Robinson \u2013 a pioneer visionary of the Australian landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brisbane-born artist William (Bill) Robinson AO (b.1936) was a visionary painter who offered an all-encompassing perspective on the Australian landscape. He passed away peacefully last week (26 August), aged 89.<\/p>\n<p>For a while Robinson considered a career in music. From 13 he was an accomplished pianist and had been a finalist in the ABC\u2019s annual Concerto and Vocal Competition. But he felt more relaxed behind a canvas than on a stage.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tUnlock Padlock Icon<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tUnlock this<br \/>\n\t\t\tcontent?<\/p>\n<p>\t\tAccess this content <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artshub.com.au\/become-a-member\/?utm_source=ahau&amp;utm_medium=paywall&amp;utm_campaign=join-cta&amp;utm_content=news\/news\/vale-william-robinson-a-pioneer-visionary-of-the-australian-landscape-2819620\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane-born artist William (Bill) Robinson AO (b.1936) was a visionary painter who offered an all-encompassing perspective on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134,9118],"class_list":["post-127951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}