Rick Amor knows his subjects intimately, but the paintings are not always literal representations; they have evolved over a number of years, and are often underpinned by several layers of memory, knowledge and perception....
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By Timothy Abdallah BA
28 Jan 2020
‘I don’t go into Melbourne more than I can help. I spend my days working in the garden.’1
Arthur Streeton’s 1936 letter to Lionel Lindsay conveys a notion of a man at the end of his career, in retirement. In 1921 Streeton had bought five...
By Caroline Jones BA, MA (Art Admin.)
28 Jan 2020
In 1945, William Dobell moved to the small New South Wales coastal town of Wangi Wangi to seek a quieter existence. Two years...
By Catherine Baxendale B Phil Hons
28 Jan 2020
Norman Lindsay’s prolific...
By Anonymous
28 Jan 2020
Throughout his productive and fascinating career, the one subject, or ‘muse’, which has continually captivated John Olsen, is the natural world. From the minutest of swamp critters, field mice, frogs, pelicans and giraffes, to the tributaries, endless ocean and expansive inland...
By Gavin Fry
28 Jan 2020
Winning the Archibald prize, the Nation’s most prestigious art award, has become something more than just a competition for the best portrait. The prize has evolved as a form of honorific, providing a ready-made tagline for every journalist and news...
By Asta Cameron
28 Jan 2020
Clarice Beckett, now recognised as one of Australia’s finest early modernists, lived a humble life. She never left the state of Victoria and painted most of her oeuvre in the Melbourne seaside suburb of Beaumaris while caring for her aging...
By Corinna Cullen BA MA Art History and Curatorial Studies
28 Jan 2020
‘You make your own reality, there is no other rule.’1
By Catherine Baxendale B Phil Hons
28 Jan 2020
Born in Lilydale, north east of Melbourne, in 1927, Whisson’s formative years were spent under the tutelage of Danila Vassilieff (1897-1958), Melbourne’s pre-eminent figurative expressionist.1 Through Vassilieff, Whisson formed loose acquaintances with Sidney Nolan (1917-1992) and...
By Anonymous
28 Jan 2020
The first impression of Roy de Maistre’s Annunciation c1934 is one of a painted stage set. There are minimal brightly coloured flats on each side of the image that focus the viewer’s attention on two cubist figures occupying centre stage. This seems like an innovative approach to...
