Auguste Blackman '3 Minotaurs' Framed:Framed

Auguste Blackman '3 Minotaurs' Framed:FramedAuguste Blackmans 3 Minotaurs is reminiscent of one of art historys most iconic banquets. In 1908, Pablo Picasso and poet Guillaume Apollinaire threw a party for post Impressionist painter Henri Rousseau, also known as Le Dounier. The gesture was tongue in cheek: while they admired his avant garde aesthetic, Picasso and Apollinaire perceived Rousseau as a kind of child, prone to inventing truths and inflected with a folk sensitivity. Thus, unknownst

is at peace as she listens to music

'Rubicon Valley' 1996

The detail of the mother and child in the left foreground

This screenprint is moody and thoughtful

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It was the setting for some of Blackman's boldest printmaking experiments

'Headlands III' 1991

otherworldly and deeply contemplative themes

just six years later

St Kilda or Fitzroy Gardens

The effect is uncanny – as precise as a photograph

rousing wind and sunlight in flashes of colour