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Author Helmridge-Marsillian, Veronique.

Title Stewart MacFarlane : riddles of life / Veronique Helmridge-Marsillian
Published Roseville East, NSW : Craftsman House ; [Australia] : G+B Arts International, [1996]
©1996

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Description 168 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Contents Includes index
Summary Each of MacFarlane's canvases holds a self-contained design: a woman, or a man, or both together, at a moment in life when the dreams and desires of erotic love have sharply conflicted with reality. Each canvas thus highlights a typical problem of modern sexual relations. But assessed as a group, these pictures go even further, for they span the entire socio-psychology of contemporary life
Still in full development and likely to become one of the most typical representatives of Australian figurative painting, Stewart MacFarlane is a notable contributor to the creation of an Australian identity. Dramatic, colourful, and sometimes shocking, MacFarlane's paintings uncover the intense human dramas that run beneath the civilized order of society. In a framework of stark realism - a realism where recognizable Australian cityscapes, superbly evoked, sum up all Western urban life - the artist suddenly lets loose a surreality of human gesture and emotion, a cryptic enactment that seizes the viewer with its potency
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 160) and index
Subject MacFarlane, Stewart, 1953-
Figurative painting, Australian.
Man-woman relationships in art.
Painters -- Australia -- Biography.
Painting, Australian -- 20th century.
Painting, Australian.
Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Australia.
Sex in art.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Author MacFarlane, Stewart, 1953-
LC no. 96163137
ISBN 9766410542
Other Titles Riddles of life
Riddles of life