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Principals losing their principles you reckon
Strange that she's arguing she'll be cleared when the facts come out
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Principals losing their principles you reckon
Strange that she's arguing she'll be cleared when the facts come out
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Henson's photographs have had a history of challenging the 'civil acceptable' point. I have found him a master of ambiguity and chiaroscuro through his work. He has struggled for nearly a 25 year period of complex issues.
He strongly resembles Robert Mapplethorpe in stylisng, strong contrast and use of B & W photography to perfection also the innocence which is captured. In Mapplethorpe's era his subject matter of iconiclising the gay popluation was not accepted openly ( this stems from his fathers abuse). He did to work with Lady Lisa Lyon again suggestive and beautiful. He was equally heatedly denounced or lovingly accepted. His exibitions were sold out.
In answer to your question Julia, there has always been a fine line between art and pervsity through out history. I do believe in this case the works on show a Roslyn Oxley were not appropriate. Not just to viewers but more so to the children/adolescents giving them a falsehood taste of fame through nudity. And the unauthorised opportunity to take them with out full parental consent.
As you know youngters are highly influencal and the results may not become obvious to them for years. Through the developed age of civilzation in many different cultures the acceptable standards have changed so dramatically.
In this age of fast speed media through many various links. The lack of doctors to treat the mentally ill, and in many cases untreatable on rape, abuse, incest and torture from childhood. The pedophilles being caught now, though only a small fraction.
The average child now at 10 emulating an 18 year old, with the influnce of toys, play cosmetics, TV, peer pressure, adult lingerie for kids! It is like we have missed a whole generation of innocence, one we cling and try to produce.
I do not denounce all his previous work, who knows what the true impetus for this collection was, only he will. Like all exhibitions one should look at it's entirey to understand the emotion and conveyed message.
Though we can appreciate his former work as an artist.
Paris Opera Series 1991
He is heavily influenced by the old masters Caravaggio’s, Rubens and Rembrant in this use of chiaroscuro. Some of those painting were challanging at their time.
Ajitto by Robert Mapplethorpe (1981). a direct model of Jean Hippolyte Flandrin (1809-1864) was a Neo-Classical painter
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Actually there are a stack of Salvador Dali pictures already on ASF ...
#203 to about #207 on this thread :-
https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=182730
(and also #232 for Brett Whiteley - actually I used to live a couple of houses away from him in North Sydney - except the missus - then girlfriend - and I used to eat more normal mushrooms than him :eek777: )
#203 to about #207 on this thread :-
https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=182730
(and also #232 for Brett Whiteley - actually I used to live a couple of houses away from him in North Sydney - except the missus - then girlfriend - and I used to eat more normal mushrooms than him :eek777: )
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Bill Leak on ABC - 8.00 pm Mondays - brilliant (so far anyway )
doing a posthumous painting of Pro Hart at the moment.
)doing a posthumous painting of Pro Hart at the moment.
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2020Hindsight, have you seen the works of Kurt Wenner?
http://www.kurtwenner.com/gallery/Street_gallery/index.htm
http://www.kurtwenner.com/gallery/Street_gallery/index.htm
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white crane, thanks - I have now
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Here's another extraordinary artist, Willard Wigan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Wigan
And his website:
http://www.willard-wigan.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Wigan
And his website:
http://www.willard-wigan.com/
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Is this painting Australia's greatest art purchase?
Bought in 1973
From the New York-based Australian gallerist Max Hutchinson, he discovered that Blue Poles (painted in 1952) was available for sale from the original owner for $1.3 million ($11 million in today's money).
The painting was Jackson Pollock's near five-metre wide work Blue Poles and today its estimated value is about $350 million.14 Apr 2022
Blue Poles - Wikipedia
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From the New York-based Australian gallerist Max Hutchinson, he discovered that Blue Poles (painted in 1952) was available for sale from the original owner for $1.3 million ($11 million in today's money).
The painting was Jackson Pollock's near five-metre wide work Blue Poles and today its estimated value is about $350 million.14 Apr 2022
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Margaret Forsyth ... watercolour
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Supernovae, 1959–61, Victor Vasarely
at the Tate Gallery. . Size is 2.45m x 2.5m
- the only time I experienced Stendhal Syndrome was when standing in front of this work, and it was induced by lifting eyes from bottom to top.
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I enjoyed this Gallery in London
Only small, but every acquisition a masterpiece, imo. The Gallery is most famous for its iconic Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces – such as Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. It showcases these alongside an internationally renowned collection of works from the Renaissance through to the present day.
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Only small, but every acquisition a masterpiece, imo. The Gallery is most famous for its iconic Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces – such as Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. It showcases these alongside an internationally renowned collection of works from the Renaissance through to the present day.
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Art is close to genius and superior to the politick. Putin's bottom lip says it all.
You can now see Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin locking lips in a highly provocative mural by Lithuanian artist Mindaugas Bonanu. Painted on the side of a local barbecue restaurant Keule Ruke, Lithuanian for "Smoking Pig," the mural references the famous 1979 photograph of East Germany's Erich Honecker and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing, which was a traditional manner of Socialist leader greeting at the time.
The commissioned work appears to be an attempt at casting the two as lovers and is — yes — questionably homophobic. Written next to the Putin-Trump mural is, "Make everything great again," a play on Trump's campaign slogan.
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You can now see Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin locking lips in a highly provocative mural by Lithuanian artist Mindaugas Bonanu. Painted on the side of a local barbecue restaurant Keule Ruke, Lithuanian for "Smoking Pig," the mural references the famous 1979 photograph of East Germany's Erich Honecker and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing, which was a traditional manner of Socialist leader greeting at the time.
The commissioned work appears to be an attempt at casting the two as lovers and is — yes — questionably homophobic. Written next to the Putin-Trump mural is, "Make everything great again," a play on Trump's campaign slogan.
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quite like this guy
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here's a 'colonial' painting from Hobart, Tasmania.
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" View taken from above Augusta Road "
is the title , and it takes in a NE aspect of the Domain, Newtown Bay, Lutana and Mt Direction. What is known as Main Road can be discerned, and Stoke House, built 1887, is visible.
It is signed by Fanny Lumsden, 'student artist', 1888. Size is approx 1.6m x 1.1m
She was born in 1862 at Kempton, Tas, married late 1888, and is my great grandmother. I have inherited the painting.
On the early 1950s, my parents lived close to the site, which is near the corner of Montague St and Augusta Road, and mum's parents were a few houses away.
In 1988, I took it to the Tas Museum and Art Gallery, as they were staging a Bicentennial exhibition. The sniffy curator dismissed it as crude, though he said the original plaster frame might be 'worth something'.
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" View taken from above Augusta Road "
is the title , and it takes in a NE aspect of the Domain, Newtown Bay, Lutana and Mt Direction. What is known as Main Road can be discerned, and Stoke House, built 1887, is visible.
It is signed by Fanny Lumsden, 'student artist', 1888. Size is approx 1.6m x 1.1m
She was born in 1862 at Kempton, Tas, married late 1888, and is my great grandmother. I have inherited the painting.
On the early 1950s, my parents lived close to the site, which is near the corner of Montague St and Augusta Road, and mum's parents were a few houses away.
In 1988, I took it to the Tas Museum and Art Gallery, as they were staging a Bicentennial exhibition. The sniffy curator dismissed it as crude, though he said the original plaster frame might be 'worth something'.
