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World Art - March 2006

Announcement

March 31st 2006 23:49

Just a short announcement that this blog's project has expanded from an art site dedicated to Sydney alone to one that has a global flavour. That's right, too big for this one dollar town Sydney Gallery is going global and will offer reviews and appreciations of high art in galleries and theatres from around the world.

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Posted By: sam - Category: Miscellany

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2006 Archibald Prize: A Respose

March 31st 2006 23:39

Marcus Wills has won the 2006 Archibald Prize for his painting The Paul Juraszek monolith (after Marcus Gheeraerts). The Archibald Prize is now in its 85th year. Marcus receives a prize of $35,000.

The Paul Juraszek monolith was inspired by an etching called Allegory of iconoclasm by Marcus Gheeraerts the elder, a Flemish engraver, illustrator and painter best remembered as the illustrator of the 1567 edition of Aesop's fables. Wills saw the etching in a book whilst researching some paintings he was making based on the apocalypse and thought would like to do something with it

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Posted By: sam - Category: Exhibitions & Performances

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A Review: 'Fat City ' (1973)

March 30th 2006 05:23

Although this may not strictly be within the ambit of this site's project (a site devoted to Sydney high arts)I thought today I would write a brief comment on the neglected classic Fat City (1973). Directed by master auteur John Huston the film tells the story of Tully (Stacy Keach) and Earnie (Jeff Bridges)two small-time boxers struggling to make ends meet while striving for the 'fat city' of the American dream. Unlike boxing films such as Rocky (1976) and the recent Cinderella Man (2005), Fat City refuses the conform to generic conventions; this is no rags to riches tale. Rather, more akin to Million Dollar Baby (2004), the film offers a realistically gritty and unromantic portayal of dreams dashed and futility realised. Set in drab Californian locations and filmed in the washed out colours of blue collar America, the result of the film's uncompromising realism is a work that is less inspirational than a formula boxing film but more authentic, and ultimately, more satisfying because of it.

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Posted By: sam - Category: Film reviews

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A Review

March 29th 2006 10:13

Mozart's Die Zauberflote(The Magic Flute), one of the composer's very last works, is a operatic standard, a fun an innocent work that is a perennial favourite amongst opera lovers. The plot is pretty unimportant, the appeal of the opera essentially lying in the incredibly contrasting score and its pastiche of operatic and performance styles, incorporating elements of pantomime, farce, spoken dialogue and 'special effects' scenes. That being said, a few words on the plot probably wouldn't hurt.

Prince Tamino, wandering far from home, is rescued from a monster by Three Ladies. Their mistress, the Queen of the Night, asks Tamino to resue her beautiful daughter Pamina from the clutches of her rival Sarastro, and to aid him in his quest Tamino is given a magic flute. A number of implausible plot developments take place and by the end of the opera Tamino and Pamina, now lovers, are welcomed into Sarastro's order

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Posted By: sam - Category: Art reviews

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An Auspicious Occasion

March 29th 2006 08:28

Today marks a watershed moment in the history of Australian art appreciation, criticism and connoisseurship. I refer not to the tragic death of eminent Australian artist Pro Hart nor to the controversial and progressive winner of the 2006 Archibald Prize, but to the inaugural posting on the art themed blog 'Sydney Gallery', a site that will devote itself wholeheartedly to an objective, totally even handed discussion of Sydney art related events, from the visual arts to performance art to opera to art-house film.

Now, to all those who have washed up on this site hoping to slake a carnal thirst I must apologise. Although the name 'Sydney Gallery' is rich with pornographic potential the closest that this site will come to obscenity is a review of Opera Australia's current production of Mozart's The Magic Flute
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