Best known for landscapes such as this
‘The Arnolfini Portrait’ has bewitched audiences
cultural and emotional life spans decades and has often explored the idea of an innocent and sacred personal world
Caprice humorously makes the scene larger than life
Kevin Connor is an Australian artist known for his observation of the human condition
Brett Whiteley 'Nectar (addiction), Portrait of Paul Verlaine' contemporary Best known for landscapes suchBirds recur throughout Brett Whiteleys work, functioning as both motif and metaphor. As a child, he would steal eggs from nests and as an adult, paint them in his work. Forever moving around, he often thought of the flight paths of birds, his representations of them tinged with yearning for freedom and domestic stability. In 'Nectar', the artist creates an intimate and restrained etching of a bird drinking from a small flower. With simple mark making,