Archive for February, 2012

Valadon, American beauty with pear and apple. 2010

American beauty and the Caravaggesque

In 2009 artist Rosemary Valadon had a sell out show at Eva Breuer Gallery with a suite of giant teacups under the title Euphoria: the tea party. At first glance they appear all very feminine, domestic and decorous. On second look these works are anything but! This one, American Beauty with pear and nectarine blossum is my favourite and I’ve been trying
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Posted by carolebest on Feb 10, 2012
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The Homer Simpson of AGNSW

While not normally a fan of the Simpsons, I stopped by AGNSW some weeks ago to view the new Kaldor collection and there I saw Homer. He was not, as you might suspect, a visitor muttering the well-known cliche ‘my six year old could paint that’, nor was he one of dozens of bus-bound seniors, devouring Sydney ‘cultcha’ en-mass before
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Posted by carolebest on Feb 01, 2012
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