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Art Gallery of NSW

artists’ quotes:
ARTEXPRESS and the visual arts syllabus

The following quotes by artists from the Gallery's collection provide insights into art-making practice and key content in the Stage 6 Visual Arts Syllabus.

They have been chosen for audiences to consider when viewing ARTEXPRESS, with the aim of enhancing their understanding of individual student artworks on display and the syllabus from which they are derived.
 

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Francis Bacon
Harold Cazneaux
Grace Cossington Smith
Salvador Dalí
Edgar Degas
Rosalie Gascoigne
James Gleeson
Antony Gormley
Bill Henson
Tim Johnson
Anish Kapoor
Anselm Kiefer
Robert Klippel
Rosemary Laing
Henri Matisse
Sidney Nolan
Pablo Picasso
Tom Roberts
Doris Salcedo
Ricky Swallow
Hossein Valamanesh
Brett Whiteley
Bill Henson - Untitled
collection art gallery of new south wales   Bill Henson (Australia, b.1955)
Untitled 1990/91 (Paris Opera Project) 1990-91
© Bill Henson. Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by the Rudy Komon Memorial Fund 1993

Syllabus link: Frames: Structural

In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the greater experience of viewing the work. So that you forget you are looking at a painting, or a photograph.