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WHEN DEATH BECOMES ‘PASSING’ AND EMOTIONAL RESPONSES ARE LEARNED FROM TV DRAMA, WHAT CHANCE DOES EXPRESSIONIST FIGURATIVE PAINTING HAVE?
WHEN DEATH BECOMES ‘PASSING’ AND EMOTIONAL RESPONSES ARE LEARNED FROM TV DRAMA, WHAT CHANCE DOES EXPRESSIONIST FIGURATIVE PAINTING HAVE?
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN LIVING ARTISTS FESTIVAL. AUGUST 2021
STATE SPONSORED ARTS PATRONAGE IS ONE THING BUT MAKING A LIVING AS AN ARTIST, QUITE ANOTHER.
Just how do you create a culture of more than just free entertainment from feel-good events? Essentially this requires a cultural shift of major proportions
OF LINEAR LOGIC, CREATIVITY AND THE RIGHT ANSWER
Something that I have never understood, or even least, appreciated, is the insistence in education that everyone should take mathematics, five days week for the majority of their school lives.
PUBLIC HOLIDAYS FOR AGEING FOREIGN MONARCHS AND HORSE RACES – HOW ABOUT ONE FOR THE ARTS?
I think the message here is don’t wait for self-serving governments or tech billionaires to pass on a few cents.
THE IMPROBABLE MOMENT
A painting such as this is just such a moment. The figure is caught in motion, in transition, while the other areas are motionless but enlivened with texture. Words appear as seeming dialogue – the visualisation of a soundtrack. In film recording, the sound and picture are treated separately and only brought together in the editing. Again, this is artificial. We experience sound and picture simultaneously however, while the picture can be isolated to a static image or still, words are traditionally spoken at three words per second meaning that the words in the picture cannot be literally experienced at the same time as the figurative and textural elements in the painting. This contradiction creates not so much confusion as layers of improbability.
CONSIDERATIONS OF THE IMPROBABLE MOMENT
Film presents us with a version of reality based on the idea of a frame that is both improbable and impossible. We can’t experience the frame as a measure whether it is a flat surface modulated with tone or colour or one of 25 frames constructing a second in time.
FINE – THE ART OF DOING WHATEVER YOU WANT.
It has been a long time since I considered what constitutes ‘fine art’ or even ‘art’ and I’m surprised that the debate still continues or that anyone still feels the need to define either.
TIK TOK AND THE ART HISTORY SHUFFLE. LET’S DANCE!
Today it is Tik Tok reducing the world to the insignificant and inconsequential.
BITUMEN, BUMS ON SEATS AND THE DOLLAR VALUE OF THE ARTS
t would seem that there is both a cultural divide and a divide of expectation when it comes to Federal government support. Upwards of half a million people actively involved in the Arts may well vote with their feet at the next election and look for a better deal or at least elected officials who take them seriously. In 2019 16.4 million Australians were eligible to vote with a 92% turnout at the ballot box. A disenchanted Arts block of 500,000 could well make the difference in urban areas where Arts practitioners ostensibly reside.
THE IVORY TOWER, THE OPTIMIST AND THE FAILURE OF ARTS EDUCATION
So, while curriculum writers and critics argue about how many Australian artists might be mentioned in classrooms, their endeavours will fall on deaf ears unless the visual arts are prioritised and not left to chance and competing curriculum demands of what becomes increasingly irrelevant in people’s lives.
OF BANKSY, BIG BROTHER AND THE PAPAL INDISCRETION?
Another public case against yet another giant corporation on behalf of street artists everywhere at least keeps the rights of street artists in the public spotlight.