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| What is This Thing Called Love (2013) (Detail 1) |
What is This Thing Called Love (2013) (Detail 2) |
What is This Thing Called Love (2013) (Detail 3) |
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This work: I always want to make work that is beautiful, interesting and different. Here, I also wanted to paint a very red work and to pay a small homage to Sidney Nolan. Australian context: The title of this painting does not have a question mark. After Prince Charles (next in line as monarch of Australia) made his famous "whatever love is" comment (on his engagement to the Lady Diana Spencer), his turn of phrase came to be synonymous with a lack of real love. But this painting actually celebrates "whatever love
is" - be that the love of husband and wife cameleers (or other pioneering Australians), Sidney Nolan's
love of the archetypal Australian hero he saw in Ned Kelly, or the great love of the Ancestor Spirits, whose Dreamings brought the animals, plants, rocks, and other landforms of Australia into being, along with the relationships between these creations and the land.
"What is This Thing Called Love" is not posed as a question in this work. Instead, it is the artist's expression of one kind of answer. |
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