Early Life
Tucker loathed school and willingly left at 14 and became a commercial artist. He attended life drawing classes at the Victorian Artists Society where he honed his brilliant draughtsmanship.
Throughout the 1930s, Tucker continued to refine his skills, while experimenting with his homemade paints. In the late 1930s, two important émigré artists arrived in Melbourne – Josl Bergner and Danila Vassilieff. Their realistic representations had a great effect on Tucker’s work, as he too, began to explore confronting truths of the depression. However, Tucker’s work began to take more shape in the next decade, the “Angry Decade” of the 1940s, as the artists responded to the horror of war, incensed by the abolition of hope just after the depression appeared to be clearing up.
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