From Selfie to Self-Expression
‘Vanity of vanities; all is vanity’, so goes the saying of old – and yet one that’s never rung truer than today. If the values of every age or society […]
Monthly Archives: April 2017
Robert Rauschenberg: Reinventing Art
In one of Robert Rauschenberg’s most famous works, Monogram (1955-59), a stuffed angora goat sits with a car tire around its body. It’s unconventional, to say the least: oddly charming, […]
Rodin and Dance: The Essence of Movement
At the very heart of modern art is a preoccupation with energy: the attempt to create an aesthetic which, brought about by changes in manufacturing, technology and transportation, captured the […]
Australia’s Impressionists
Think Impressionism, and your mind will conjure paintings by Cezanne, Monet and Renoir long before it reaches the shores of Australia. It might not be a continent particularly synonymous with […]
The Culturist 