Posts Tagged: art
Serial Suprematist
Stef studying the subtleties of Nixon’s Black cross painted in 1992.
Shakespeare Gentleman Illustrator
The first Shakespeare Penguin titles appeared in 1940. They were designed by the steadfast classicist Jan Tschichold. By the late 1960s the series was looking dated. Penguin was trying to be less literal and more cerebral, and designer Germano Facetti had
Shakespeare Gentleman Illustrator
The first Shakespeare Penguin titles appeared in 1940. They were designed by the steadfast classicist Jan Tschichold. By the late 1960s the series was looking dated. Penguin was trying to be less literal and more cerebral, and designer Germano Facetti had
When Text is Enough
When the time came for Paul Auster’s Penguin books to be redesigned, he asked the art director to consider using a typographical rather than image based approach.
When Text is Enough
When the time came for Paul Auster’s Penguin books to be redesigned, he asked the art director to consider using a typographical rather than image based approach.
Atmospheric Content
“The pictorial idea, be it drawing, collage or photograph, will indicate the atmospheric content of the book.”
Atmospheric Content
“The pictorial idea, be it drawing, collage or photograph, will indicate the atmospheric content of the book.”
50 Shades of White
I’m noticing a trend in book design. Many shades of white.
Middlemarch Winter
“There is something in daubing a little one’s self, and having an idea of the process.”
Middlemarch Winter
“There is something in daubing a little one’s self, and having an idea of the process.”
Spooky Spirit
This little hoofed fellow is supposed to stop dead people coming out of their graves to interfere with the living.
Spooky Spirit
This little hoofed fellow is supposed to stop dead people coming out of their graves to interfere with the living.
Alfred and Uma
Most of the fabulousness of the National Gallery of Victoria can be attributed to Mr Alfred Felton.
Alfred and Uma
Most of the fabulousness of the National Gallery of Victoria can be attributed to Mr Alfred Felton.
Grains for the Dead
If the spirit of the ancestor is happy and peaceful then they will look after the living. So best to feed them lots of grain.
Grains for the Dead
If the spirit of the ancestor is happy and peaceful then they will look after the living. So best to feed them lots of grain.
Holding Art
Some lovely earthenware sculptures from the National Gallery of Victoria.
Cézanne and Kelly
‘The most pleasurable thing in the world for me is to see something and then translate how I see it.’
Cézanne and Kelly
‘The most pleasurable thing in the world for me is to see something and then translate how I see it.’
Cézanne Seeing
When Ellsworth Kelly was a young boy, he put a print of this chesnut tree painting of Cezanne’s on his wall.
Cézanne Seeing
When Ellsworth Kelly was a young boy, he put a print of this chesnut tree painting of Cezanne’s on his wall.
Sophie Tauber-Arp
‘The intrinsic decorative urge should not be eradicated, it is one of humankind’s deep-rooted, primordial urges.’
Sophie Tauber-Arp
‘The intrinsic decorative urge should not be eradicated, it is one of humankind’s deep-rooted, primordial urges.’
Godfrey Miller’s Counterpoint
‘Through the counterpoint of line and colour plane, the rhythmic themes and their inversions, we see the transmuted colour rhythms of the landscape shorn of superficiality.’
Godfrey Miller’s Counterpoint
‘Through the counterpoint of line and colour plane, the rhythmic themes and their inversions, we see the transmuted colour rhythms of the landscape shorn of superficiality.’
Godfrey Miller’s Counterspace
“If I had my time over again I would paint still life.”
Anchorite Godfrey Miller
From a vigorous, athletic boy to a reclusive painter.
John Coburn’s Serenity
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter, an art which might be for every mental worker, be he businessman or writer, like an appeasing influence, like a mental soother, something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.’
John Coburn’s Serenity
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter, an art which might be for every mental worker, be he businessman or writer, like an appeasing influence, like a mental soother, something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.’
John Coburn’s River and Bend
John Coburn’s precise, clear and deliberate style.
Ian Fairweather’s Brooding Heads
“I can plan a painting. But that’s not how I like to do it. The work has to develop as I paint.”
Ian Fairweather’s Brooding Heads
“I can plan a painting. But that’s not how I like to do it. The work has to develop as I paint.”
Fairweather Plashes
“After my little dip into abstraction I find I can’t get back again and am quite bushed.”
Fairweather Plashes
“After my little dip into abstraction I find I can’t get back again and am quite bushed.”
Ian Fairweather’s Abstractions
“It’s between representation and the other thing, whatever that is, and it’s difficult to keep one’s balance.”
Ian Fairweather’s Abstractions
“It’s between representation and the other thing, whatever that is, and it’s difficult to keep one’s balance.”
Ian Fairweather’s Mothers
Umbrellas and mothers. Two of the most common motifs used by Ian Fairweather. “Ian is a strange child. He likes to be away by himself and can never by found when he is wanted,” said Ian’s mother, Rose Fairweather. Ian’s parents
Ian Fairweather’s Mothers
Umbrellas and mothers. Two of the most common motifs used by Ian Fairweather. “Ian is a strange child. He likes to be away by himself and can never by found when he is wanted,” said Ian’s mother, Rose Fairweather. Ian’s parents
Ian Fairweather’s Land and Mindscapes
Empty space and calligraphic marks are the bits I like about this Ian Fairweather painting. Such a unique aerial landscape with its stumpy trees and strange white stilts. Alongside lovely white voids. A Balinese temple. | Ian Fairweather, Landscape, 1954 |
Ian Fairweather’s Land and Mindscapes
Empty space and calligraphic marks are the bits I like about this Ian Fairweather painting. Such a unique aerial landscape with its stumpy trees and strange white stilts. Alongside lovely white voids. A Balinese temple. | Ian Fairweather, Landscape, 1954 |
Ian Fairweather’s Parasol
Around the time my parents were contemplating a new life in a bright and airy space artist Ian Fairweather (1891 -1974) had built a cottage on Bribie Island.
Ian Fairweather’s Parasol
Around the time my parents were contemplating a new life in a bright and airy space artist Ian Fairweather (1891 -1974) had built a cottage on Bribie Island.
Iona House Green
Iona House was surrounded by our busy dairy and potato farm.
Iona House Red and Blue
Iona House in all its glorious Kodak Instamatic colour
Iona House Features
In the black and white days of the Iona House at 2060 Main Drain Road, Iona, family and possessions were falling gently into place.
Iona House Features
In the black and white days of the Iona House at 2060 Main Drain Road, Iona, family and possessions were falling gently into place.
Iona House Family
I contacted architect John Davidson last week and he kindly corresponded with me about the “Carlowrie” house at Iona.
Iona House Family
I contacted architect John Davidson last week and he kindly corresponded with me about the “Carlowrie” house at Iona.
Iona House Beginnings
As the grand-daughter of a Koo-We-Rup East Iona pioneer, my mother Hayden Ritson (Kavanagh) inherited all sorts of land around Iona. In the late 1950s, my parents decided to build a brand new house in the modern style. It would
Iona House Beginnings
As the grand-daughter of a Koo-We-Rup East Iona pioneer, my mother Hayden Ritson (Kavanagh) inherited all sorts of land around Iona. In the late 1950s, my parents decided to build a brand new house in the modern style. It would
Fitzpatrick’s Drouin
Photographer Jim Fitzpatrick was an official war photographer for the Australian Information Service.
Fitzpatrick’s Drouin
Photographer Jim Fitzpatrick was an official war photographer for the Australian Information Service.
Lina Bryans Richmond
Lina Bryans met a lovely architect Alex Jelinek in the 1950s and found a really large house at 39 Erin Street, Richmond.
Lina Bryans Richmond
Lina Bryans met a lovely architect Alex Jelinek in the 1950s and found a really large house at 39 Erin Street, Richmond.
Lina Bryans’ Pink Colony
Artists’ Colonies seem a particularly Melbourne thing in the early part of the 20th century. A dog bite was responsible for Bryans’ Colony. Lina Bryans knocked on the door of Ada May Plante (a painter friend of Jock Frater) for some
Lina Bryans’ Pink Colony
Artists’ Colonies seem a particularly Melbourne thing in the early part of the 20th century. A dog bite was responsible for Bryans’ Colony. Lina Bryans knocked on the door of Ada May Plante (a painter friend of Jock Frater) for some
