Deathly depictions
Skulls and death motifs are more popular today than they have ever been and Ballarat Art Gallery celebrates their history.
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Fuss fades, 30 years on
Almost 30 years after one of modern art’s biggest controversies it now seems safe to survey Robert Mapplethorpe’s work.
Bigger picture
Great portraits are like archeology in the way they venture past the surface to discover what lies behind the face.
This is not a snapshot
I remember thinking long ago that Rene Magritte was essentially the favourite painter of people who don’t like painting.
Method to the monuments
The selection of work is as always eclectic, reflecting the general uncertainty about the purpose and place of art in contemporary society.
A landscape reimagined
Fred Williams changed the way we see our environment: his work must be seen within our history of landscape painting.
Worthy chip off the old block
Cressida Campbell’s work seems to represent an intimately and thoroughly familiar environment.
Morality in own time and place
Donald Friend was exceptionally talented, although he never quite achieved the recognition one might have expected.
Living in style
Inhabitants of modernist dwellings may be living in the alienation of self-representation, not the reality of home.
Mexican parables
This show captures the pathos and endurance, the stoicism and the restricted mental world, of Mexico’s peasant masses.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/christopher-allen/page/43