2-4, Sydney, 2001, 8. This is flanked on one side by a baboon howling with anguish as a ghostly hand delivers it a syringe, and on the other a photograph of the artist looking serenely normal. In 1991 he was awarded an Order of Australia. Deborah Bogle, The Australian, 'Art Movement', pg. Brett Whiteley and the lyricism of the drawn line - in pictures . Jonathan Cooper (Editor), The Art Gallery of New South Wales Bulletin, 'Big Blue', pg. There are portraits of Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Charles . 86. [18], In 1999, Whiteley's painting The Jacaranda tree (1977), which had won the Wynne Prize, sold for A$1,982,000,[19] a record for a modern Australian painter at that time. 190-210, Cambridge, 1988, cover (illus. Barry Pearce, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Landscape and gesture', pg. This painting won the Archibald Prize in 1976 and was acquired by the Gallery in 1977. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons. This article appeared in the 'Arts Australian' section of 'The Australian' newspaper. The Self-portrait of 1977 represents a far less theatrical attempt at self-reflection. BRETT WHITELEY Donald Williams, In our own image: the story of Australian art, Sydney, 1995, 170, 171 (colour illus.). Richard Wherrett, Sydney Theatre Company Limited Ninth Annual Report 1987, Sydney, 1987, front cover (colour illus.). He won the international prize at the second Paris Biennale for Young Artists in 1961, and married his lovely muse, Wendy Julius, the following year. Brett Whiteley: van Gogh self portraits, Greenhill Galleries, , 27 Jan 1987-22 Feb 1987. In London he excited art dealers and fell under the influence of painters such as Francis Bacon, of whom he later made a series of portraits. Typically, the viewer is led deeper into the picture by means of minute detail. A handful of his own curly, reddish hair glued to the picture signifies a desire to explore a higher kind of realism, as if mere paint on canvas were insufficient to the task. ), 135 (colour illus.). 21, Sydney, 2008, 20 (colour illus. Thomas Keneally, Australia, 'Dead heart / live heart', pg. TheCompanion is available to buy online and in the Portrait Gallery Store. [24] The paperback, featuring a new cover, was released in 2017. This is the same article that appeared in `The Saturday Mercury', titled `Whiteley gone but his great spirit lingers on', 20 June, 1992. 201-202, North Ryde, 2010, 202 (colour illus.). ), 198, 209 (illus.). Source: Art Gallery of New South Wales Archive. An amazing man. Discusses how alcohol opens up circus of the imagination which Whiteley feared he would not be able to reach otherwise. 105. Self portrait in the studio 1976 Like many other In writing about Brett Whiteley, it is tempting to simply present the facts and let the reader draw his/her own conclusions, such are the contradictions. List of winners. Whiteleys art was intimately connected to his tumultuous, creative life. Portraiture shouldnt just be paint and canvas. Works of art from the collection are reproduced as per the, Let me know when this portraits on display. This appeared in the `Arts' section of `The Australian Supplement'. I think that the artwork is set in Brett Whiteley's studio No other Australian artist had such a wild, woolly set of curls. Brett Whitely (7 April 1939 - 15 June 1992) Look closely at the work and find the signs and symbols Whiteley uses to represent himself as an artist. Construct a self-portrait by layering images of these personal symbols. ), 231. plate no. Shop unique custom made Canvas Prints, Framed Prints, Posters, Tapestries, and more. His wife Wendy appears as "Delish". Signed and dated l.r., black ink "brett whiteley/ 1975-76/ ". Terry Ingram discusses current art market, and valuation of Whiteley's work. AU $100.00. It was, at the very least, a way of exposing his own dark obsessions to the widest possible audience and the full glare of publicity. This is an advertisement for an art book titled `Brett Whiteley' by Sandra McGrath. But there was another side thats duality of life and thats where Bretts pictures moved away from Matisses. He is represented in the collections of all the large Australian . The painting is set in Brett Whiteley's studio with his furniture and includes his other artworks around him. . Wendy Whiteley on 'Self-portrait in the studio' (1976), Wendy Whiteley on the life and work of Brett Whiteley, Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Prizes for 1976, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22Jan197727Feb1977, Archibald Retrosepctive Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19851985, Brett Whiteley Art & Life (1995-1996), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 16Sep199519Nov1995, Brett Whiteley Art & Life (1995-1996), Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 13Dec199528Jan1996, Brett Whiteley Art & Life (1995-1996), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 22Feb199608Apr1996, Brett Whiteley Art & Life (1995-1996), Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 09May199616Jun1996, Brett Whiteley Art & Life (1995-1996), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02Jul199626Aug1996, Brett Whiteley Art & Life (1995-1996), Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 18Sep199617Nov1996, Big Blue - the painted harbour (1997), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21Jun199729Mar1998, A Different Vision - Brett Whiteley Sculptures (1998), The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 04Apr199823Aug1998, Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04Aug200003Dec2000, Brett Whiteley: Interiors (2001), The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 14Jul200114Oct2001, To look within: Self portraits in Australia, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 16Apr200420Jun2004, To look within: Self portraits in Australia, National Portrait Gallery [Old Parliament House], Canberra, 09Jul200419Sep2004, Warning: Smoking has been linked to some of the most powerful images of the twentieth century an MPRG exhibition., Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, 04Apr200628May2006, 9 shades of Whiteley, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, 12Jul200807Sep2008, 9 shades of Whiteley, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, 13Sep200815Nov2008, 9 shades of Whiteley, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, 22Nov200808Feb2009, 9 shades of Whiteley, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, 14Feb200926Apr2009, 9 shades of Whiteley, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, 01May200914Jun2009, 9 shades of Whiteley, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, 02Jul200923Aug2009, Iconic Whiteley (2009-2010), The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 12Sep200922Aug2010, Brett Whiteley - Connections (2010-2011), TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, 06Nov201019Mar2011, Blue (2011), The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 09Jul201108Jul2012, The nude: erotic, sensual and sacred, The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 12Apr201301Sep2013, Brett Whiteley portraits, The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 23May201428Sep2014, Brett Whiteley: sculptures and ceramics, The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 05Jun201506Dec2015, Destination Sydney, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly, 05Dec201514Feb2016, Naked, The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 18Nov201614May2017, Brett Whiteley: drawing is everything, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15Dec201831Mar2019, Brett Whiteley: drawing is everything, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 31Jul202131Oct2021, Brett Whiteley: drawing is everything, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, 10Dec202126Jan2022, Brett Whiteley: Lavender Bay, The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 25Oct201915Mar2020, Brett Whiteley: Blue and White, The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 30Apr202227Nov2022, Brett Whiteley: Eternity is Now, The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 03Dec20222023. John Olsen at the time of print was a board member of the Art Gallery of NSW. In 1959 he won an art scholarship sponsored by the Italian government and judged by Russell Drysdale. Whiteley's sculpture, Nude (1962) Brett Whiteley AO (7 April 1939 - 15 June 1992) was an Australian artist. This article appears in 'The Arts' section of the newspaper. 71-89, Sydney, 1984, 72, 72 (colour illus.). This clip shows Brett Whiteley's artworks in his studio intercut with black-and-white photographs of him as a child. Published in Deutscher and Hackett: IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN + INTERNATIONAL FINE ART, Braving Time: Contemporary Art in Queer Australia. How do they compare to Whiteleys artworks? The immediate effect was a heightening of reality in that everything I looked at took on an intensity That morning returning to school by bus, I remember the poplar trees were bare for winter but it took me years to paint what I saw. He painted a series of paintings based on these events, including Head of Christie. The Brett Whiteley Studio, Brett Whiteley: Interiors, Sydney, 2001. [4], In June 1991, Whiteley was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia. Whiteley's intention was to portray the violence of the events, but not to go too far in showing something which people would not want to see. [4] He painted Woman in bath (1963)[5] as part of a series of works he was doing of bathroom pictures. Apart from the mirror portrait, this was clearly inspired by Matisse's Red Studio, with the colour transformed to Whiteley's favourite ultramarine blue. (Whiteley 1979: 1) Whiteley also made images of the beach, such as his yellowish painting and collage work The beach II, which he painted on a brief visit to Australia before his return to London and his winning of a fellowship to America. Bruce James, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Australian Collection: Painting and Sculpture', pg. Bill Gregory, Art and Australia (Vol. [2], In explaining his use of collage, which often saw him adding photographs or objects to a canvas, Whiteley said he did it: when I feel the need to describe in the focus of the painting something that requires infinite realism, a realism so absolute that no amount of painstaking brush strokes can accurately describe it. [3]. 1927 Mrs Annie Murdoch by G. W. Lambert. The music will be written by Elena Kats-Chernin, with a libretto by Justin Fleming. Charles Green, Peripheral vision: Contemporary Australian art 1970-94, Drummoyne, 1995, 7. Brett Whiteley AO (1939 - 1992) Born 7 April 1939 Sydney, New South Wales Died 15 June 1992 (aged 53) Thirroul, New South Wales Education Julian Ashton Art School Known for Visual arts Movement Avant-garde Awards: Biennale de Paris - International Prize for Young Artists 1962 Archibald Prize 1976 Self Portrait in the Studio, 1978 Brett Whiteley Self Portrait In The Studio Framed Print . The painting which was finally produced was made of a fantastic array of elements, including collage, photography and even flashing lights, with a total length of nearly 22 metres. [4] In 1962, Whiteley married Wendy Julius. 1 whit.jpg. Subtitled; An extraordinary life. Scholarly publications with full text pdf download. A detail of Whiteley's self portrait is accompanied with a photograph of the artist. 100-111, London, 1998, 108 (colour illus.). Barbara Konkolowicz, Look, 'Big Blue Sydney Harbour Through The Eyes of Artists', pg. The exhibition includes 20 Whiteley works and traces the artist's life and career from his earliest painting Self Portrait at Sixteen, 1955 to just a few months before his death with Port Douglas, Far North Queensland 1992. As with other works, there is evidence of Whiteley's love for Matisse, ultramarine blue, the Sydney Harbour location and for collected objects. (Above) Brett Whiteley Self portrait in the studio 1976 oil, collage, hair on canvas, 200.5 x 259 cm Self Portrait in Studio Brett Whiteley 1976. The room is a veritable salon hang of the artists sculptures and drawings. Brett said he had wanted it to scare himself straight. [1]. Greg Weight on working with Jiawei Shen, and starting out as a photographer. List of journal articles on the topic 'Stanley Press (Firm)'. What is your initial response to this artwork? The illustration is a detail of Whiteley's 'Self Portrait in the Studio'. 15, Sydney, 29 Jun 1997, 15 (illus.). He is represented in the collections of all the large Australian galleries, and was twice winner of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes. Jill Sykes (Editor), Look, 'What's on elsewhere', pg. He is represented in the collections of all the large Australian galleries, and was twice winner of the Archibald Prize. Geraldine Pascall., The Australian, 'Whiteley's arts double; Judges' daring matches entries', Sydney, 22 Jan 1977, (illus.).