As fine art they differ in that they are lifted beyond any hint of cruelty. However these paintings go beyond this genre with a surgical ability to strip away the cosmetics to reveal the real flesh. These works have a quality of wry amusement & a humour most associated with social or political cartoons.
His works are consistently lyrical statements in his own voice - intense intimate interior monologues –of which the complexity & sophistication is often disguised by deceptively simple ready access iconography. Paul Best is an Australian painter of wistful commentaries on the common human condition.Ī maker of paint laden, insightful comments on & of experience & thought. “The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.”
ABORIGINAL CONTEMPORARY PAINTING & the GREAT AUSTRALIAN ALIENATION:
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