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Category Archives: Art
Joyeux Noël | Festive Greetings to You All
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) provides emergency food and healthcare to children and women in countries that have been devastated by war or other significant emergencies. UNICEF has been selling greeting cards for over 70 years. These cards … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Cards, GreetingCards, Illustrations
Tagged Anthony Harvey, Australian art, Australian artists, Danish art, Danish artists, Giksen Gross, Greeting cards, Unicef
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What a lot of ‘White Noise’ | The Pamela Anderson House
St Kilda West’s “Pamela Anderson House” was once owned by infamous Australian Rules footballer/commentator from “The Footy Show“, Sam Newman. Situated at 270 Canterbury Road, on a former railway reserve, this post-modern style house was built in 2001 by Melbourne … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Urban Art
Tagged Architecture, Baywatch, Cassandra Fahey, house design, minimalism, Pamela Anderson House, Post-modernism, Sam Newman, White Noise
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To Market, To Market, To Buy a Fat Pig
[Featured images by Bartolomeo Passerotti | Two Market Stalls: The Fish Stall and The Butcher Stall (both oil on canvas 112cm x 152cm).] Italian artist of the Mannerist period Bartolomeo Passerotti, was born in Bologna in 1529. He traveled to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Gallery Art, Paintings
Tagged Italian art, Italian artists;, Mannerist period, Market stalls
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Why do these remind me of the ICPOTA man with his newspaper cap?
[River art installation: Talking Our Way Home by Shaun Kirby, River Torrens, Adelaide, South Australia. (Five glass and steel origami-like boats suggesting movement, transport and the idea of journey)]. Installation artist Shaun Kirby (born London 1958- ) migrated to Adelaide, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, nostalgia, Sculpture, Urban Art
Tagged #Adelaide, Alex Stitt, ICPOTA, installaion art, River Torrens, Shaun Kirby, The Age
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From Hot Winds to Hayricks, its a Garden Idyll
[Mrs. Conder (Portrait of Stella)], [Garden Idyll (ca.1906) 65.2 cm x 75.5 cm], [Hot Wind (1881) oil on board 29 cm x 75 cm] and [Hayricks in Giverny oil on canvas]. English-born painter, lithographer and designer Charles Edward Conder was … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Erotic Art, Gallery Art, Paintings
Tagged aestheticism, Australian artists, Heidelberg School of art
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How Many Kinds of Sweet Flowers Grow In an English Country Garden?
[Peter Abraham – ‘Sunday Teaparty’ Duke of Wellington Art Gallery, Mosman, Sydney, NSW.] Born in Queensland in 1926, Peter Abraham studied at the Brisbane Technical College in Queensland and later at the National Gallery School, Melbourne, Victoria. Abraham became a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Gallery Art, OilPainting, Paintings
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Adam and Eve or Suzanne and André?
[Adam and Eve (1909) Oil on canvas (162 cm x 131 cm)] Suzanne Valadon (23 September 1865 – 7 April 1938) was a French artists’ model and painter born Marie-Clémentine Valadon at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, in France. She was also the mother … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Erotic Art, Gallery Art, Paintings
Tagged Adam and Eve, Andre Utter, Edgar Degas, Maurice Utrillo, Puvis de Chavannes, Renoir, Steinlen, Toulouse-Lautrec
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I Don’t Know About You But … I Decline Myself
[‘I Decline Myself: ABNbookwork” Cottles Bridge, Vic. ThisTooPress, (2009).] Lyn Ashby was born in 1953. Ashby has a PhD (Studio-based, arts research) from Monash University in Melbourne, the London College of Communication (Master of Arts, Typo/Graphic Studies), the Victorian College … Continue reading
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Here Comes the Bride
Australian crepe wedding dress (1953) made by Violet Cocking (nee Dowey) who had resided in North Street, Castlemaine, prior to her marriage to Stanley Cocking in 1924. The dress was inspired by the gown worn by Queen Elizabeth II upon … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Gallery Art, OilPainting, Oriental Art, Paintings, Textiles
Tagged Arthur Boyd, Bride series, Bridegroom series, brides, Castlemaine Museum, Chinese wedding outfit, Edmund Blair Leighton, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Kit Lee, Melbourne Chinese Museum, Violet Cocking, wedding dresses
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What Are We Hanging Around For?
[Sea Country Spirits (2015-2016) consists of 32 sculptures of spirits, of takorra (sky) beeyak (land) and warri (sea); from Wathaurong country, which Jenny presents as a rhythmical dance of animated spirit forms of different scales, made from copper wire, tree … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Sculpture
Tagged Australian artists, Indigenous Australian art, Sea Country Spirits
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Hey, Flick That Chip Off Your Shoulder
[“Flick That Chip off Your shoulder” street art mural by Indonesian artist Eko Nugroho in Hosier Lane and “Dilema Generasai #2″, oil & synthetic polymer paint on fiberglass steel, at National Gallery of Victoria]. Eko Nugroho (b. 1977 in Jogyakarta, … Continue reading
The Village Life of Hendra Gunawan
Hendra Gunawan was an Indonesian artist, poet, sculptor and guerilla fighter who was born in Bandung, the capital of West Java, (former Dutch East Indies), on June 11, 1918 and died in Bali on July 17, 1983. Gunawan was best … Continue reading
Successfully Sensitive | Emotionally Unstable
Brit D’Argaville’s ‘Political Problem’ [Neon transparent synthetic polymer resin, 39.8 x 122.6 x 6.4 cm. Exhibited at Start Up – Top Arts 2015 National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)] Using specific colour and font, Brit D’Argaville’s ‘Political Problem‘ draws on gender … Continue reading
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Compare the Pair #20 | Every Picture Tells A Story
Original Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-August Renoir. Other, modern day representation and replication of the event by unknown photographer recreating image for The Age Good Weekend prize. Pierre-August Renoir’s (1841-1919) Luncheon of the Boating Party stands as a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Gallery Art, Paintings, QuestionableArt
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