Australia's greatest modern (post-war) painter. Constantly mining the outside and inside worlds in an effort to make sense of what it is to be human. Utterly brilliant and an inspiration to all who wish to be creative. Breathtaking!
@@pixl8me i lived at eerie park the next property over on bundanon road my mum was his studio assistant i have done paintings with arthur as a kid he was a very nice man and very generous to me and my family
The later paintings are lyrical,,and the commentary prosaic, Did Boyd say the 1968 Nebuchnezzar on Fire was informed by reports of the self immolation of anti Vietnam War protesters,There were no such reports,,no such immolations,,the last self immolation was of a Buddhist monk in Saigon in 1963 in protest at the Diem government,And even if he said it why believe him,,he might have been having a go at curators/art historians,Are Blakes watercolours about contemporary events,,Is Goyas painting Third of May 1808 really about Third of May 1808, Curators are literal minded,,painters are not, The biographical fallacy is a great fallacy,,,and the destruction of the Harkaway murals a great tragedy, If anybody embodies the importance of tradition,,,familial cultural religious,,it is Arthur Boyd, He lives,,he defines us as Australians
