Arthur Boyd was one of the most significant Australian artists of the twentieth century, part of a veritable creative dynasty which included his grandparents, Emma Minnie a’Beckett (1858-1936) and Arthur Merric Boyd (1862-1940), his uncle Penleigh (1890-1923) and his parents Merric (1888-1959)...
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By Rodney James, B.A. (Hons.), M.A
24 Oct 2018
When the Prince of Pop met the Louisville Lip in 1977 something special was bound to happen. Andy Warhol was one of the most iconic artists of his time, famous for his serial images of soup cans, coke bottles, actresses and world leaders. Muhammad Ali was at the top of his game, recently...
By Ken Wach
24 Oct 2018
It is often remarked that there is something distinctly Australian about Kelly’s cow series of paintings and sculptures. This at first seems quite odd because the cow is not an Australian native animal and Kelly was born in England. However, it is not the cows as such that embody Australia, but...
By Ken Wach
24 Oct 2018
Considered in terms of Williams’s stylistic progression, the present painting Hillside II of 1968 may be justifiably considered as the culmination of an important five-year long aesthetic development.
Hillside II 1968 is an aesthetic companion to Hillside I of...
By Ken Wach
24 Oct 2018
Jeffrey Smart’s major painting Outside the Ministry of 1970 is a harmony of parts. The painting pulses with what might justifiably be called “visual alliteration”. That is, it has a range of “optical melodies” that run through and serve to both form and inform the built-up composition...
By Ken Wach
24 Oct 2018
Fernand Léger’s China Town of 1943 is a rare and singularly accomplished painting that was created during the artist’s longest visit to America. Its visually arresting compositional attributes are distinctively typical of the sixty-two year old artist’s mature oeuvre in the last...
By Emeritus Professor Sasha Grishin AM FAHA
24 Oct 2018
Adagio is one of John Brack's most important and challenging paintings of the 1960s. He was seeking for a metaphor through which to express human relationships, a stage on which a man and a woman could perform. The painting was executed in 1967 and was exhibited in Canberra, Sydney and...
By Timothy Abdallah BA
24 Oct 2018
In 1964, Jeffrey Smart stood on the threshold of a settled life and career as an expatriate Australian painter in Europe. Until then he had, by living and working in Australia, been able to accumulate the money required for travel in Europe. From this time on, he could rightly regard himself as...
By Ken Wach
24 Oct 2018
Ian Fairweather’s paintings are very keenly sought by discerning collectors and galleries right through the nation. Once they are bought they tend to be held and rarely appear on the market. In fact, the artist’s works have been offered for public sale in Australia as few as seventy-one times in...
By Rodney James, B.A. (Hons.), M.A
24 Oct 2018
Sidney Nolan pursued vigilantly throughout his career the notion of man pitted against the extremities. Nolan was particularly interested in the stories of 19th century explorers including Edward Eyre, Ludwig Leichhardt and Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills and their...
