or rather, as the title goes: abstralian austraction.
there is aboriginal art, post-modernist landscape abstractionists, sydney mob who generate flashy neo-abstract expressionist replicas, urban bansky stencil warriors and the occasional nature inspired painter. But what about vegemite and bark and eucalyptus and stuff?
I am just trying to understand what abstract means in terms of our culture, history and identity. Or does it even matter? Not sure that I even have an argument.
Yet I feel there is something vital in a whole heap of artists work...something that pierces the veil of the post-modern, conceptual, machine driven art world and exists as itself, without trying to be....i don't even know who has it, but i see it and when i do, it goes bOOm. you know who you are.
As usual, my attempt at intelligence is GAMMON.
Think i might paint in vegemite.
been done, darling....and there's a big problem
ReplyDeletecats just lick it straight off the page!
Call me old fashioned but I still reckon Ian Fairweather came the closest to nailing it in terms of culture, history and identity.
ReplyDeletei agree...interesting though that he was english....like JOhn Wolseley.
ReplyDeleteDid Fairweather use vegemite?? not sure...hmmm.
Not sure if Fairweather used vegemite..... but he certainly "used" a lot of red wine on Bribie Island. Ha !
ReplyDeletegood questions to ask Imbi... abstraction and this land!
ReplyDeletereally like your drawings... and what you are working on!
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