Arts

PROLIFIC and long-lived, Pablo Picasso is one of the Western world’s most celebrated artists. Unconstrained by a single style or one art movement, Picasso’s works…

OPHELIA, a character from William Shakespeare’s play ‘Hamlet’ met a watery end and provided the Pre-Raphaelite English painter John Everett Millais with the subject matter…

A BARE purple wall and the scent of rhododendrons determined the fate of one of Australia’s most beautiful still life paintings now on display at…

SURREALISM imagines alternative realities, juxtaposes the imagined world with the real, the irrational with the rational. This art movement, which has continued to inspire creators…

NEITHER chaste nor innocent, indecent or inappropriate, John Singer Sargent’s scandalous portrait of the society beauty Virginie Gautreau, caused a stir when it was exhibited…

‘ART for Art’s Sake’ was the mantra of the Aesthetic Art Movement of the 1880s. Proponents championed beauty, avoiding the restrictive notions of conformity, morality…

THERE is so much to discover in a work of art, it can be hard to know where to start. There’s more to it than…

ART AWARDS Painting 1st The Calm Before the Storm – Christine Parry 2nd Marshmallow Canister, Eva de San Miguel HC Tranquillity – Lyn Condon HC…

REVERED by his subjects, Ramses II ruled Ancient Egypt for 66 years during which time he brought peace and great prosperity; his reign remains the…

THE work of the painter is to represent life as they see it, and emotion as they feel it – they are the conduit through…

by FELICITY SMITH PAINTERS often use self-portraits to hone their skills without the expense of a model, but for the Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo…

WRITERS, poets, musicians, and painters unconsciously document the social, political and cultural mores of their experience, making art a reflection of society. In part streaming…