Hutun hutu a Mentone

Hutu a Mentone wani zane ne da Charles Conder, wani babban memba na ƙungiyar Heidelberg School, wanda aka fi sani da Ostiraliya, ya zana a shekarar 1888. Yana nuna mutanen da ke yin ayyukan bakin teku a rana mai rana a Mentone Beach, a yankin Mentone na Melbourne.

An yi bikin zanen ne saboda kama zafi da hasken rana mai haske wanda ya kebanta da Ostiraliya . An kuma san shi da barkwanci da kuma wasan kwaikwayo na gani, An bayyana hutu a Mentone a matsayin "wani sharhi mai ban dariya game da sauya yanayi zuwa fasaha ta hanyar salo, ado, da zane". 

 Bayani 
A watan Oktoban 1888, Conder, mai shekaru 20, ya ƙaura zuwa Melbourne daga Sydney . Conder ya haɗu da mai zane Tom Roberts da ke zaune a Melbourne a Sydney a shekarar da ta gabata, sannan kuma a lokacin Ista na 1888, inda suka yi zane mai kyau tare a Coogee Beach. A Melbourne, Conder ya fara zama a ɗakin studio na Roberts' Grosvenor Chambers kuma A Holiday at Mentone ita ce zanensa na farko a sabuwar birnin, wanda aka kammala cikin 'yan makonni da isa can.[1]

A lokacin bazara na 1886–87 a Mentone, Roberts da Frederick McCubbin sun kafa "sansanin masu fasaha" kuma, kamar yadda aka sani, sun haɗu a karon farko da matashin Arthur Streeton, yana zane a bakin teku. Waɗannan masu fasaha uku, tare da Conder, sun zama membobin abin da aka sani da ƙungiyar Makarantar Heidelberg, wadda aka fi sani da impressionism ta Australiya.

 Liyafar maraba da gado 
An fara nuna zanen a baje kolin bazara na ƙungiyar masu fasaha ta Victorian a watan Nuwamba na shekarar 1888, wata guda bayan da Conder ya isa Melbourne. Da yake bitar shirin, jaridar The Argus ta lura cewa: "Charles Conder wani matashi ne mai fasaha wanda ya faɗa ƙarƙashin sihirin masu ra'ayin Faransa." 

 Manazarta 
Broude, Norma (1994). World Impressionism. Harry N. Abrams, ISBN 9780810981157. p. 47.