To express what only drawing will allow
VISUAL ART: Dobell Drawing Prize. Art Gallery of NSW.
Christopher Allen
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Learned behaviour
STUDENTS of art are almost always preoccupied with finding a distinctive style and subject in time for their graduating exhibition.
Of death and mythologies
AUSTRALIANS spend a lot of time in galleries during our summer months, although paradoxically much of it is in the great museums of Europe.
Prints among men
LEON Kossoff is part of a generation of post-war British painters who kept painting in the face of the immense success of American abstraction.
Wild at heart
IT is not hard to see why landscape is one of the most fundamental and perennial themes in Australian art.
Random works miss their mark
VISUAL ART: Sculpture by the Sea. Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk. Until November 14. Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize. Woollahra Council Chambers, Sydney. Until November 7.
Wealth of material
THE fact that works from Venice have found their way to WA is because of the gallery’s new director, Stefano Carboni, a native of La Serenissima.
No place for ink-jetted photographs
VISUAL ART: Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award. Fremantle Arts Centre. Until November 21.
Rocks of ages
THE Rocks in Sydney was one of the first parts of this continent to be occupied by residential buildings more than two centuries ago.
Civilising mission
HUMANITY has produced three great clusters of civilisations that have eventually extended to all the people of the world.
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