Robert Klippel had many wonderful ideas; one of the best was to treat man-made mechanical and industrial objects as if they were produced by Nature. The truly Modern sculptor, he thought, should be always interested in three-dimensional form – no matter its source.
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Western Australians took Robert Juniper to their hearts, making him the most recognisable and successful artist in the state’s history. He personified the image they had of themselves and their isolated home – he was tall, robust and energetic, physically powerful, independent and with a com
For the Surrealist artist James Gleeson, the great Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519, Florentine) got it right. That is, in 1508, when he outlined his method of “jump-starting” the creative imagination:
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The single most important element of those which come together to create a Ray Crooke painting is light: it is light which gives the work its ageless quality, mystery and indefinable presence. It is Crooke’s use of light which provides a sense of tranquil stillness that imbues his most memor
Charles Blackman first visited Queensland in 1948 at the age of twenty following a desire to break away from the familiarity of Sydney where he lived with his mother and siblings. He had left school at fifteen and worked at the Sydney Sun for two years – the artist yearned to travel
Sidney Nolan might have been the most imaginative and self-confident artist of his generation, but it is doubtful that even he, as he first marked out the slotted black box of Kelly’s helmet, could have foreseen the impact that gesture would have on the Australian imagination and psyche. He
Few artists have engaged in such a passion for art and life as Brett Whiteley; few have absorbed, observed and painted their immediate landscape environment with such lucid expression, and yet engaged in the asphyxiation of a drug-fuelled urban culture on edge. For Whiteley, this life/art pa
There’s the stillness, that moment caught…I like the painting to be well constructed, to contain the eye, and also to have passage which one can move across. In other words, I think my impetus is to paint the one perfect painting which, under the paint, contains all those things. I like thin
Interior with Girl 1986, is a classic example of Charles Blackman’s ability to evoke an alternative realm in which the commonplace is a backdrop to a fanciful state. Blackman’s images of girls and women set in interior spaces and suburban streets captured the imagination of the Aust
Those who have grown up in the peace and prosperity of the last sixty years find it hard to imagine the disruption and hardship caused by the six long years of World War Two. Even without the ever-present threat of death and injury to loved ones serving overseas, domestic life was a hard gri