Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A new home for our blog!
After 12.5 years, it is time for the Kenneth Tyler Collection blog to move to a new home. With the recently updated National Gallery of Australia website being rolled out, our content can now be found in the Stories & Ideas section of this domain. We would like to thank all of our wonderful readers…
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Bending the rules: Ellsworth Kelly’s Colored Paper Images
A look at Ellsworth Kelly’s Colored Paper Images series, 1976
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Transparency and noise: Sonnier’s screenprints
David Greenhalgh examines Keith Sonnier’s 1973 ‘Video Still Screen’ series, their noise and how the artist reimagined television
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Reading, writing and performing clear vision
Ruby Rossiter explores Bruce Nauman’s 1973 print ‘Clear vision’.
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Pat Gilmour (1932-2021)
Remembering Pat Gilmour, curator, writer and print scholar.
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Masami Teraoka and ukiyo-e printmaking
An investigation into one of the first prints made at Gemini Limited and the explosive processes behind it
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Marabeth Cohen-Tyler (1962-2021)
With heavy hearts we share the news of Marabeth Cohen-Tyler’s passing.
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How to make a bomb-shaped sculpture
An investigation into one of the first prints made at Gemini Limited and the explosive processes behind it
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The reclamation of an image
A look at Charles White’s Portrait and the source for this work
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David Hockney: symbolic expressions of queer experience
How David Hockney affirmed his identity through the image making process
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Plastics and pathos: The making of Oldenburg’s Airflow
Oldenburg’s ode to a car, and the complex plastic processes behind its manufacture
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Question: Helen Frankenthaler and the influence of Japanese art and culture
Anja Loughhead questions the influence of Japanese culture on Helen Frankenthaler
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To make a brushstroke look like a brushstroke
How Roy Lichtenstein ironically reincorporated the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke
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PERCEPTION TEST
The Lead relief series are an ironic critique of visual culture, a rhetorical proposition to the looming, unanswerable question – how indeed are these objects intended to nourish us if their message is always changing?
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