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Australian Arts

A ravishing sensuousness

22 April 2023

9:00 AM

22 April 2023

9:00 AM

What a world of paradox painting confronts us with. The death of John Olsen is a reminder of his stature and the complexity of the influences that shaped this man of Sydney and then there’s the scandal of go-getting whities merrily at work on acrylic dot paintings that were to be marketed as Aboriginal art.

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