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Posts tagged with “australian artists”

1 month ago
strooop: American Caustic. Cannot wait for Season 5 to start, yo. Stroop has some cute art and animations to enjoy, PLUS he’s a Melbourne lad, so GO Aussie!

strooop:

American Caustic.


Cannot wait for Season 5 to start, yo.

Stroop has some cute art and animations to enjoy, PLUS he’s a Melbourne lad, so GO Aussie!

from Strooop!
86 notes #gifs I ♥ #breaking bad #australian artists
4 months ago
‘Shearing The Rams’, by Tom Roberts, was the inspiration for a more recent advertising campaign for ‘aussieBum’ underwear. In the advertisement, Roberts’s muscular male shearers are still hard at work – but in their undies. The designer, Sean Ashby, described his advertisement as ‘promoting what it means to be Australian today’ – an aim very close to Roberts’s own when he made Shearing the rams. Ashby explained further, ‘more of our iconic businesses and traditions like shearing are either being sold overseas or dying off … we wanted to remind people to value their heritage and buy Australian, in a cheeky way’. We can only speculate what Tom Roberts would think.

‘Shearing The Rams’, by Tom Roberts, was the inspiration for a more recent advertising campaign for ‘aussieBum’ underwear.

In the advertisement, Roberts’s muscular male shearers are still hard at work – but in their undies. The designer, Sean Ashby, described his advertisement as ‘promoting what it means to be Australian today’ – an aim very close to Roberts’s own when he made Shearing the rams.

Ashby explained further, ‘more of our iconic businesses and traditions like shearing are either being sold overseas or dying off … we wanted to remind people to value their heritage and buy Australian, in a cheeky way’.

We can only speculate what Tom Roberts would think.
3 notes #aussie bums #australian artists #celebrating australia day
4 months ago
Brett Whiteley is one of Australia’s most revered artists. His lyrical expressionism and lack of inhibition placed him at the forefront of Australia’s avant-garde art movement. He won many prizes and awards and his work hangs in numerous galleries, including the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, the Tate Gallery in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.In the last years of his life Whiteley travelled far and wide, taking in England, Bali, Tokyo, and spending two months in Paris in an apartment on Rue de Tournon. On 15 June 1992 he was found dead from a heroin overdose in a motel room in Thirroul on the NSW coast. The coroner’s verdict was ‘death due to self-administered substances’. He was 53 years old. Read more here

Brett Whiteley is one of Australia’s most revered artists. His lyrical expressionism and lack of inhibition placed him at the forefront of Australia’s avant-garde art movement. He won many prizes and awards and his work hangs in numerous galleries, including the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, the Tate Gallery in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

In the last years of his life Whiteley travelled far and wide, taking in England, Bali, Tokyo, and spending two months in Paris in an apartment on Rue de Tournon.

On 15 June 1992 he was found dead from a heroin overdose in a motel room in Thirroul on the NSW coast. The coroner’s verdict was ‘death due to self-administered substances’. He was 53 years old.

Read more here
12 notes #australian artists #died too young #celebrating australia day
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