Pareidolia - perceptions of religious imagery in the natural, organic media?
The above oil on linen titled, Smashed (Diptych), is by Ben Quilty, a practising artist and a Sydney College of the Arts graduate.
Self-portraits are traditionally made looking into a mirror. The image in this work is of my own head reclined and drunk, eyes averted from the viewer in debauched oblivion. My work is thick and heavily laden. To literally destroy that surface in the act of making a Rorschach (a test designed by Hermann Rorschach to aid psychoanalysts in the diagnosis of mental illnesses), I examine the debauched coming-of-age rituals of young Western men and in so doing the glorification of decline - both of the painted surface and the drunken man I am self-interrogating.......Ben Quilty
Museum of Contemporary Art, Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia (Wednesday 18 Aug 2010 @ 1:26pm)
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John Schaeffer AO (art collector and philanthropist) by Evert Ploeg.
The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (Friday 25 Jul 2014)
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The Member, Dr. Sir Leslie Colin Patterson KCB AO (elder statesman, retired politician, former chairman of the Cheese Board) by Tim Storrier. Acrylic on canvas.
The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (Friday 25 Jul 2014)
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Winner, 2014 Packing Room Prize.
Barry Humphries is manager of the subject character Sir Leslie Colin Patterson. There is strange resemblance between these two men.
The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (Friday 25 Jul 2014)
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Cate, take 2 by Tim Maguire.
Photography was used in Maguire's painting process. He takes a photo, adjusts it digitally and scans each of the primary printing colours (yellow, magenta, cyan). He builds up the image in transparent layers of paint based on these colour separations. He then sprays the work with a diluted solvent, which creates random mixes of colour.
The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (Friday 25 Jul 2014)
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