20 September 2016

Australia Portraitor : A Sedimental History


ABC.TV : 
Howard On Menzies: Building Modern Australia 
    
Doris Day :
Gonna take a sentimental journey
Gonna set my heart at ease
Gonna make a sentimental journey
To renew old memories


Sentimental Journey is a popular song, published in 1944. 
The music was written by Les Brown and Ben Homer
and the lyrics were written by Bud Green.
            
bLOGOS/HA HA 
How would you like to be depicted, Sir Robert?
     
by Sir Ivor Hale, CBE , 1954
Winner of Archibald Prize for Portraiture, 1954
Collection of Art Gallery of New South Wales
         
Sir Ivor Henry Thomas HeleCBE (13 June 1912 – 2 December 1993) was an Australian artist noted for portraiture. He was Australia's longest serving war artist and completed more commissioned works than any other in the history of Australian art. - Wikipedia
              

by Sir William Dobell OBE , 1960
Commissioned for cover of TIME magazine
Collection of Art Gallery of New South Wales
               
commissioned by Clothworkers Company, London

by Sir William Dargie CBE , 1971
Commissioned by members of Melb Uni Council
University of Melbourne Art Collection
         

by Paul Fitzgerald AM , 1970s (?)

Paul Desmond Fitzgerald AM (born 2 August 1922 in Hawthorn, Victoria) is an Australian portrait painter who has painted more people of distinction than any other living Australian artist.
- Wikipedia 
     

Same diff! (Wardrobe Malfunction)
          
bLOGOS/HA HA 
And how would you like to be seen, Sir Robert?
            

Theatre of the Actors of Regard 
AAA_Art Archive Australia 
 detail 
 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 
         
 LOGOS/HA HA
     

Theatre of the Actors of Regard 
AAA_Art Archive Australia 
 detail 
 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 
         
 LOGOS/HA HA


Theatre of the Actors of Regard 
AAA_Art Archive Australia 
 detail 
 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 
         
 LOGOS/HA HA