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June 14, 2007
A semi-surreal figurative work from someone who was once seen as a visionary genius and viewed as being in the forefront of Australia's avant-garde art movement:
Brett Whiteley, Portrait of Wendy, 1984
Others understand Whiteley in terms of figurative expressionism. What is significant is that Whiteley turned his back on the dominant mode of 20th century art, abstraction, which he did whilst in London in 1963. It is the line and the colour that catches the eye.
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