Ben Quilty has turned Ink Blots into an art form using the correct nomenclature Rorschach after the Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach who created the test. Below is Eugene von Guérard’s original painting which is one of my favourite paintings by the Austrian born artist, considered by the mid 1800s to be the foremost landscape artist in the colonies, especially in the southeast and New Zealand. ABC Arts / By arts editor Dee Jefferson. I’m sure we have all had a go at making our own ink blots. Quilty has been making "Rorschach paintings" for over a decade (including his 2009 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize-winning painting of Jimmy Barnes). "I've since found out that many of that smallpox was spread purposefully in blankets given to the community," Quilty said at last week's media call for his exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW.
He speaks of "channelling the suffering; the broken, forgotten history; the insanity of people trying to forget this history; the denialists" into his latest painting, "to make something very positive". As Quilty grew older, the painting came to trouble him. 'Quite a bit of chaos': What happens if Biden wins and serves only one term? With his signature thick, unabashed application of oils, Quilty has painted the left hand skull directly onto the linen, and then - still wet and piled high with paint - pressed the two panels together to create its inverse imprint. 8 min read, Ben Quilty is an Australian favourite: as an artist and person. Do banks think a huge number of Australians will default on their mortgages in coming months? "Most of the massacres [of Indigenous people] that took place around Australia were at beautiful locations — because, for example, a waterfall is where there is permanent water.
3. Johnstone's painting presents a romantic vision of Australian landscape with such forceful beauty that it has become the most copied work in the Art Gallery of South Australia's collection. (colour illus. Quilty's Rorschach paintings are undeniably beautiful — the colour palette; the sense of composition — but they also unsettle, partly because the Rorschach test brings its own set of connotations.
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But Aunty Blacklock says "you can feel the heartache in the painting". Quilty has also applied his Rorschach technique to landscapes, one of the most well known examples being his reaction of a painting by early Australian artist Eugene von Guérard’s painting of the North-east view from the northern top of Mount Kosciuszko. From my reading I believe he uses a cake icing knife to apply the paint! Quilty himself is reluctant to paint the Australian landscape any other way.
One of Australia's most talented contemporary artists, Ben Quilty, once painted it – not once, but twice on the same canvas, a Rorschach-style mirror image that heightens the site's majesty. But at a certain point, his interest in landscape painting fused with his interest in history and reconciliation.
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He learned that by the time it was made, the Ngarrindjeri who lived in that area had all died of smallpox. Instead of an objective observer, the viewer is complicit in any meaning, or narrative that arises from the painting.
Curator Lisa Slade says: "All those things [the viewer sees] are contingent on your way of seeing — and that, for me, is the deeper resonance in Ben's work: he makes us play a role [as viewers].". The result might be described as a "damaged and mirrored image". Their bodies were hung in trees as a warning to other members of their community. Ben Quilty Self Portrait Smashed Rorschach (1) Quilty's most famous Rorschach image is a self portrait titled Smashed Rorschach (above) created in 2009.
Don't brush it under the table. Ben Quilty paints trauma of Myall Creek and other Australian massacre sites in Rorschach landscapes.
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Aunty Blacklock says in the film, "I think it would be a good idea to get it [the history] out there for everyone to see." Ben Quilty and Gamilaraay elder Aunty Sue Blacklock with Myall Creek Rorschach. (Supplied: Darryn McKay).
"The trauma — you can still feel it in there. New South Wales Cara Pinchbeck, Look, 'When silence falls', pg.
'Fairy Bower Rorschach' continues Ben Quilty's practice of oil painted Rorschach works where an original painted image is both damaged and duplicated by pressing one panel at a time onto another similar sized panel while the paint is still wet. When he was in year 5, and being home-schooled by his parents, Quilty and his family undertook a trip around Australia that he remembers as formative. By the time he started studying at Sydney's National Art School, in 1992, it was the heyday of Australia's 'History Wars', when historians and politicians and high court judges wrestled publicly and vehemently over the narrative of British colonisation of the continent. Both elders gave their backing for the artist to tell the story of this massacre through his painting. Image: Ben Quilty (abc.net.au), Magnificent Mansions - The Hermitage - Winter Palace, See all 932 posts "The Anangu wanted me to tell their story of standing up for their land, and this [painting] was the response to that," says the artist.
The duplication and damage of the image echoes the disturbing and violent history this site may have witnessed. Rorschach 2 was created using oil and aerosol on linen.
Irin Irinji, 2018. The Rorschach test is commonly known as the Ink Blot test- a psychological test used to assess a person’s personality characteristics and emotional functioning. → Quilty's Rorschach paintings The Gallery’s entrance area features Ben Quilty’s first monumental Rorschach painting, a remake of Eugene von Guérard’s 1863 North-east view from the northern top of Mount Kosciusko. "To tell these stories, it would be really wrong not to implicate myself — I am part of the problem. He uses a method familiar to many of us from preschool, smooshing one blank canvas against another loaded with thick, wet oil paint, then folding it back out to reveal a symmetrical image. In 2017, Anangu elder Frank Young told Quilty of an incident in which local Anangu men were killed as retaliation for spearing a white dingo scalper who had defiled a water source. The resulting artwork is beautiful in many ways.
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