A show of Australian Indigenous art should have inspired awe. It’s a mess.

The Stars We Do Not See” at the National Gallery of Art tells — and muddies — one of the most fascinating stories in 20th ...
The Conversation

Painting the unfamiliar: why the first European paintings of Australian animals look so alien to our eyes

Senior Lecturer, Critical and Theoretical Studies, Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, The University of Melbourne In 1772, Joseph Banks commissioned the foremost painter of ...
The Australian

Disoriented in the great outdoors

THE legacy of the Heidelberg School, of moderns such as Fred Williams and Sidney Nolan, and of Aboriginal art combine to put the question beyond doubt: landscape is the genre, above all others, in ...
World Socialist Web Site

Australian artist John Olsen (1928–2023)—an appreciation

Australian artist John Olsen, who died early this year aged 95, was honoured with a state-sponsored event at the Art Gallery of New South Wales acknowledging his more than seventy-year contribution to ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

How the genre of agricultural livestock art became so popular

A visitor favourite at the Art Gallery of Ballarat is an 1887 oil painting of a man in a top hat standing next to what can only be described as an absolute unit of a bull. The rectangular beast — ...
Hyperallergic

Germain Greer Reminds Us Landscape Painting is “a concept … it exists only in the mind.”

Sam Leach’s painting which won this year’s Wynne Prize (left). The 17th-century painting by Dutch artist Adam Pynacker (right). (via Brisbane Times) (click to enlarge) Veteran feminist and public ...