Brett whiteley brief biography of thomas

  • Brett Whiteley was an Australian painter who was admired for the sensuous power of his paintings and his superb draftsmanship.
  • Brett Whiteley was born in April , a few months before the outbreak of WWII.
  • Brett Whiteley was born in Sydney, Australia in He moved to London in and became the youngest artist to ever have work acquired by the Tate Gallery.

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    BRETT WHITELEY

    Brett Whiteley was an art world comet. We all look at comets and wonder where these blazing wonders come from. So it was with Whiteley like a comet he came from nowhere but was noticed everywhere.

    Whiteley may be thought of as Australias Nureyev (, Russian) of the canvas the two were born one year apart and died one year apart. The bravura, flair, airy grace and the breath-taking suspension of the ballet dancer were, for many, mirrored by the young Whiteley in the seemingly dashed-off, almost brazen insouciant brio of his paintings.

    Analogies aside, it is easy now to forget just how astonishing Whiteley really was. Who can forget the audacious artistic and well-reported impact that this young stripe-trousered, tousle-haired wunderkind made in the Sixties? Has any twenty-year old artist ever appeared on the front page of The Australian newspaper ever since?

    The insightful social and historical commentators Professors Donald Horne and Geoffrey Searle were abs

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    Lloyd Rees
    Artist (Painter), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Draughtsman)
    John Santry
    Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Painter)
    William Edwin Pidgeon
    Artist (Sculptor), Artist (Painter), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
    Russell Drysdale
    Artist (Painter), Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Photographer)
    Arthur Boyd
    Artist (Painter), Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Sculptor), Artist (Printmaker)
    John Passmore
    Artist (Painter), Artist (Draughtsman)
    Martin skarp
    Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Painter), Designer (Graphic Designer)
    Joel Elenberg
    Artist (Sculptor), Artist (Painter), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
    Peter Kingston
    Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter), Artist (Sculptor)
    Garry Shead
    Artist (Painter), Artist (Screen A
  • brett whiteley brief biography of thomas

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    In Dialogue with the Muse of Art History: Brett Whiteley

    Brett Whitely, Remembering Lao Tse (Shaving off a Second)

    The most fundamental reason one paints is in order to see. &#;Brett Whiteley

    Brett Whiteley was born in April , a few months before the outbreak of WWII. Like Ginger Meggs, Brett had a mop of red hair and was a bit of a tearaway, but unlike the comic book hero was no Aussie battler, coming from a comfortable middle class background on Sydney’s north shore. He had a precocious talent for drawing, winning an art prize at the age of seven, the first of many that came early in his career. His parents were keen on the theatre and the arts and encouraged their son to pursue his interest in drawing and painting.

    Brett and his older sister Francis had plenty of opportunity to observe their parents enjoying the good life, partying with their friends at their big house in Longueville. The budding painter was introduced early to the joys of smoking, alcohol and sex amon