by Justin Combs (Artloft) | 20 Mar, 2008 | Collecting Art
The prints of Charles Blackman – along with those of Michael Leunig and David Boyd – are often amongst the first works that kick of an Australian art collection. Blackman has been a very prolific artist over his lifetime – and so it pays to become...
by Justin Combs (Artloft) | 13 Mar, 2008 | News and Views
Artists on the whole are not necessarily the best people to write about their work – and this is probably how it should be. However in the late 1990’s a selection of John Olsen’s diary entries were published as a book called ‘Drawn from...
by Justin Combs (Artloft) | 11 Mar, 2008 | Exhibition Reviews
The Sidney Nolan retrospective has moved on to Melbourne. I noticed a least one review in the Melbourne press that put forward the view that after the brilliant early works Nolan became a cynical painter. In my opinion this is just plain wrong. Time after time...
by Justin Combs (Artloft) | 10 Mar, 2008 | Collecting Art
Sibling rivalry is a common theme of many art forms. However I doubt that there existed the usual levels between the two painters David Boyd and Arthur Boyd. I’m basing this on interviews I have seen with Arthur and a couple of conversations that I have had with...
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