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"I learnt about art through slides and magazines and books and my paintings look like a magazine or a book. They don’t have gestural marks, right? They’re not hand made, right? And I think that’s significant… The idea is they look false; they’re second–degree culture."
Page 224 – Not Just A Suburban Boy, Edwina Preston, 2002
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| Door at 9 rue Vavin, Paris © Cambridge 2000 Gallery cambridge200.com |
Jules Lavirotte, architect French 1864–1924 Door at 3 Square Rapp, Paris © Cambridge 2000 Gallery cambridge2000.com |
Flywire screens (part of an ongoing series) 1977 photograph Collection of the artist’s estate Spray, The Work of Howard Arkley, page 26 by Ashley Crawford & Ray Edgar, published by Craftsman House Fine Art Publishing, 1997 |
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| The Bedroom – A Relaxing Oasis The Complete Home-Decorator, page 206–207 by Catharine Klock, illustrated by Sylvia Wiren, published by Cadillac Publishing, 1946 |
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Islamic Interlace Patterns |
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Arkley recorded his ideas in over forty notebooks and albums, which contained notes, sketches, and source images. His studio overflowed with a profusion of eclectic source material and his library of art history, design, ornamentation and architecture was extensive. He also possessed a diverse music collection which included John Cage, Jazz, Blues and early Hip Hop. In his early career he made notes on the connections between art and music.
Left:
Roy Lichtenstein
American 1923–1997
Interior with waterlilies 1991
oil and acrylic on canvas
320.9 x 455.3 x 6.5 cm
Tate Gallery
Presented by the Douglas S. Cramer Foundation in honour
of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein 1997
© Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
Right:
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian 1866–1944
Upward (Empor)October 1929
oil on cardboard
70.0 x 49.0 cm
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein 1997
© Wassily Kandinsky/ADAGP. Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia
Left:
Albrecht Dürer
German 1471–1528
Samson Rending the Lion c.1497–98
woodcut
38.2 x 27.8 cm (image and sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1956
A00344
Right:
Albrecht Dürer
German 1471–1528
The rhinoceros 1515
woodcut
21.2 x 30.0 cm (image) 23.8 x 30.6 (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1956
A00386
Left:
Fernand Léger
French 1881–1955
Landscape 1952
gouache and watercolour
64.0 x 50.1 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1971
© Fernand Léger/ADAGP. Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia
A00449
Middle:
Jenny Watson
born Australia 1951
House painting: Box Hill North(large version) (1977)
canvas
177.8 x 213.6 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Michell Endowment, 1977
© Courtesy of the artist
A00020
Right:
Bridget Riley
English 1931–
Opening 1961
tempera and pencil on composition board
102.6 x 102.7 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1967
© Bridget Riley
A00146
Left:
Gerrit Rietveld, designer
The Netherlands 1888–1964
G. A. VAN DE GROENEKAN, DE BILT, manufacturer
Red–blue chair 1917 designed, c.1970 manufactured
painted beech and plywood, steel
86.5 x 66.0 x 83.0 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1970
© Gerrit Rietveld/ BEELDRECHT. Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia
Right:
Keith Haring
American 1958–1990
Mural on NGV Water Window 1984
A00424
