Fannys Art

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An exhibition of paintings in response to the work of 19th century painter Fanny Brunton from her sketchbook in the Hocken Collections. Exhibition Catalogue Essay by Janine Cook.

Liz Abbott first encountered Fanny Brunton — c. It is true that little parcels uncovered from library backrooms automatically evoke an air of mystery, but Liz was stunned. As she leafed through the delicate pages she saw her own stomping ground, and elements of her own painted landscapes meticulously recorded in watercolour and pencil by a woman who had lived in the same area over a century earlier.

Fanny had painted fifty topographic landscapes within the sketchbook between and Intrigued by the parallels in their art practice, Liz commenced a process of research that was to develop into a healthy and enriching obsession. As an artist, Fanny Brunton was typical of other women of her era, sketching with watercolours in a portable sketchbook. In contrast, as a modern-day professional artist, Liz utilises bold oils on large canvases and consciously explores devices from historical landscape genres. A number of further parallels exist within the works of these two artists.

Both artists were drawn to the practicality of portable miniature media. Unconventionally, Liz applies pink as a foundation colour to her canvases and discovered that Fanny also frequently used a pink wash as a base.

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Lastly, Liz and Fanny are,and were,both careful observers of the changing impact of human settlement, noting houses, land-clearing and planting as well as random or slightly incongruous objects of everyday life. I have mixed feeling about MONA. On the one hand, most of it is crap.

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I can only applaud someone who put his money where his mouth is and does not expect the government i. For to do so in this case would be a double sin. Even some of the staunchest and driest right-wingers can recognise the need for a public subsidy to preserve the cultural heritage of our and other civilisations. There is a timeless and widely acknowledged beauty to ancient Greek sculptures, the Old Dutch Masters or the Inca jewellery.

Pretty much everything else on display at any given time a small selection of the objects in the entire Walsh collection is a gimmick. You do get the impression that at least to some extent Walsh and the curators are having a joke at your expense. This art work is fed twice a day, and it shits twice a day, the food being broken down by bacteria and enzymes in a series of suspended vats.

Greg Taylor, on the other hand, seems quite serious.

The point of it, aside from creating a controversy that is? Most is New as opposed to Old Art, and likely to send you into a deep depression about the state of the modern art, or what goes for art these days. How representative is it? MONA is, after all, one rich guy basically saying: Even with this caveat, however, the vision is dispiriting.

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