Morning Came the 69th Day

Penultimate day of our adventure so a totally self indulgent one- a day at NSW Art Gallery to see the Archibald 2021 and Archibald100 exhibitions.

Booked times, masks and social distancing and we were set. I enjoyed this year as there were many and varied entries. The winner got there for many reasons but my choice remained Fozzie

Says a lot about the man.

The Sulman Prize I don't really get the requirements, or rather how the winner meets the criteria. My personal choice wasn't the winner- no surprise.

Here's the actual winner although the oic looks better than the original!

The Wynne Prize ( in broad terms, landscape) is always puzzling and this year is no exception.

The winner

Again the pic colours are much stronger- it is a quite pale work. My choice was

Entitled Treasured Island". Having just lapped Australia, the detail of the work is 1st class- missed no corner of the island! A very engaging piece. These can all be seen on the gallery website.

The A100 featured works from the inception of the prize. We enjoyed seeing the very early works, the first women painted by women,and the controversial winners.

We also saw an exhibition by Hilma af Klint, not an artist I knew and one much influenced by Theosophy. We both agreed we didn't really get it but could still appreciate it. The handout decoded all the colours, shapes and texts- helpful but it took ages to apply this to over 100 works.

From "Youth"