Category: Art
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Evicted – Brisbane’s favourite painting
British artist Blandford Fletcher’s 1887 painting Evicted wasn’t trendy when the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) purchased it for 300 guineas in 1895. In the 1890s, the western world’s painters were in full retreat from naturalism or realism – an approach to art that pays attention to very accurate and precise…
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Geoffrey Rush: trailblazing late bloomer
Is Geoffrey Rush Brisbane’s greatest living actor? If he is not I await nominations of who might eclipse him. He burst onto the international scene at the advanced age for an actor of 45 with the film Shine, in which he played the brilliant but troubled Australian pianist David Helfgott.…
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Plus ca change …
This is a photograph of a photograph that was taken in a Queen Street studio sometime in the 1850s. It shows how little teenagers have changed. These four Aboriginals have ‘attitude’, in the most positive sense. The pic was taken at the Museum of Brisbane, which is really worth a…
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Muller’s mischievous grotesques
Art too often takes itself too seriously. It takes itself even more seriously when it feels unappreciated and when experimentation is frowned upon. It was ironic then that that most staid of institutions, the University of Queensland, should have been poking benign fun at it in the august portals of…
