Bronwyn Oliver was one of Australia’s most distinctive and important sculptors, with a substantial body of work created in a short career spanning just over twenty years. Stem 2005 is one of Oliver’s later pieces, created for a solo exhibition that she had scheduled at Roslyn Oxley9...
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By Ken Wach
11 Jul 2018
Jean Arp was a very prominent member of two of Modernism’s most perplexing art movements: Dada and Surrealism. Dada, often also called Dadaism, was less a coherent group of artists than a collective of like-minded and disaffected people whose ideas and art were propelled by an abiding disgust...
By Ken Wach
11 Jul 2018
Rodin is one of art history’s best-known sculptors, falling somewhere behind the incomparable Michelangelo in the public mind. This is something that Rodin would certainly have accepted since Michelangelo was the sculptor who he admired above all others.
These introductory comments are...
By Rodney James BA (Hons.), MA
11 Jul 2018
‘People ask me 'why paint birds?' and I look at them dumbfounded! I’ve got no answer, except that they are the most beautiful creatures’. 1
Birds fuelled Brett Whiteley’s imagination and his love of the natural world. Herons, wrens, rosellas, owls and doves, to...
By Ken Wach
11 Jul 2018
Jeffrey Smart’s Bus by the Tiber has an exceptional provenance. The painting has been held in the one private collection since its original acquisition and exhibited in both Sydney and London. It has never before been offered at auction.
In addition, there is much to suggest that...
By Ken Wach
11 Jul 2018
It is worth recalling that, in the popular mind, the media and in the public Press, Pablo Picasso dominated the first half of the twentieth century just as assuredly as Andy Warhol dominated the second.
With this in mind Warhol’s Head After Picasso of 1985 presents a unique...
By Anonymous
11 Jul 2018
It goes without saying that John Olsen, at the age of ninety, is one of Australia’s most recognised and recognisable living artists, loved by the public and the art industry alike. Still exhibiting regularly, he attends public appearances, openings and speeches that would leave someone half his...
By Anonymous
11 Jul 2018
Arthur Streeton (1867–1943) is one of Australia’s most significant and recognisable artists, celebrated for his paintings that seemed to capture the very essence of the Australian landscape. As a founder of the Heidelberg school, also known as Australian Impressionism, Streeton’s late nineteenth...
By Caroline Jones MA (Art Admin.)
11 Jul 2018
Arthur Boyd’s paintings of the Shoalhaven River express the artist’s feeling for the great river and its surrounds – the scrubby banks and hills, tidal flats and the powerful ebb and flow of the water. After returning with his family from twenty-one years in England, Boyd settled just outside of...
By Anonymous
11 Jul 2018
Charles Blackman has been one of Australia’s most celebrated artists for over seventy years, establishing his reputation with his iconic Schoolgirls series (1952-1955) and then Alice in Wonderland series (1956-1957). In August 1959, he participated in Bernard Smith’s (1916-2011) landmark...
