Many of the ideas from the work may have come from his experiences with alcohol, marijuana and other drugs. Lina Tesoriero and Helga Nilson, Aspects of Arts, Marrickville, 1993, 23 (colour illus.). One could be cynical about these additions, seeing them as pictorial short cuts that saved a lot of time and effort, but its entirely plausible Whiteley was motivated solely by inner necessity or at least, his own, idiosyncratic version of the concept. I think he has done this to make the place seem more realistic because if he had . Untitled (Bird) Brett . At 16 we are all misunderstood and ready to identify with Van Gogh, but few teenagers could have created such an accomplished homage. Barry Pearce, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Australian', pg. 8 in education pack. Whiteley's self portrait is compared with Velaquez's of 1656, and Manet's of 1879. The resulting work was called The American dream, an enormous work that used painting and collage and anything else he could find on the 18 wooden panels. It was the cage of his interior, his addiction, the window or a glimpse of possible escape into paradise: the escape from ones psyche. In terms of media, it used everything from feathers and part of a bird's nest to a glass eye, as well as shell pieces, plugs and brain in a work that becomes a transmutation of sexual organic landscapes and mindscapes. BRETT WHITELEY (1939 - 1992) SELF PORTRAIT, 1977 oil and hair on canvas 30.5 x 25.5 cm signed lower. . Walsh also appears in the . In the late 1970s, Brett Whiteley won the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes several times. BRETT WHITELEY Purchased 1977 Wendy Whiteley, Need caption 232-243, Sydney, 2000, 232 (colour illus.). He won all three prizes in 1978 (the first artist to do so) and the Wynne a third time in 1984. . It shows Brett Whiteley looking at himself intently in the mirror and recording exactly what he sees. A handful of his own curly, reddish hair glued to the picture signifies a desire to explore a higher kind of realism, as if mere paint on canvas were insufficient to the task. As well as Whiteley, artists included here are Peter Upward, Ian Fairweather, John Olsen, Tony Tuckson, Royston Harpur , Michael Johnson, and four of their Chinese contemporaries in the collection; Li Jinxue, HE Jianguo, Wang Ziwu and Nie Ou. He then gifted it to the current owner who had it reassembled. Archibald Prize 2022: Brett Whiteley's winning painting, Bert and Patti card no. Born: Longueville, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 07 Apr 1939, Died: Thirroul, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia 15 Jun 1992, Brett Whiteley in North Sydney house, date unknown, by Robert Walker Estate of Robert Walker. Barry Pearce and Alec George, 9 Shades of Whiteley, '4: Lavender Bay', pg. Reading from left to right, it begins with an exploding sun from a portrait of Yukio Mishima that Whiteley had started but never completed. The Hotel Chelsea displayed several of Whiteley's paintings from the time he lived there, including Portrait of New York which was hung behind the reception desk.[7]. Are you being ignored or judged? signed and inscribed with title lower right brett whiteley / self-portrait after a haircut at 36, 100 x 75 . This photograph was taken by Andrew Rankin. Janet Hawley, Artists in conversation, Richmond, 2012, viii (colour illus.). Brett Whiteley AO (7 April 1939 15 June 1992) was an Australian artist. (age29in1975), Brett Whiteley Write a list of the things that interest you and your favourite objects.