My teacher Andre Sollier was a war artist in WW2 and obviously was influenced by it although he never spoke of it to me personally. He always just spoke of his art. He was a learned person and one of his satirical exhibitions in Kew Victoria was on the world politics and events.
One image which stuck in my mind was a beautiful bamboo grove obviously far away in the jungle away from a city with a solitary coke can dominating the picture.
In the videos here George Gittoes touches on war and humanity also and the role of the artist, in a way that the artist is a warrior of peace, although I hate this much used and often cheapened idea, it is nonetheless a valid concept.
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The Samurai of old in Japan used Sumie as well as Haiku, Tea ceremony to sharpen their minds and make themselves fearless. Why ? The real courage must come from within, not only how skilled in the arts of war you are.
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ABC One Plus One on George Gittoes Here George talks on the mystic and war
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A look at his film the Snow Monkey
4. In Texas
One image which stuck in my mind was a beautiful bamboo grove obviously far away in the jungle away from a city with a solitary coke can dominating the picture.
In the videos here George Gittoes touches on war and humanity also and the role of the artist, in a way that the artist is a warrior of peace, although I hate this much used and often cheapened idea, it is nonetheless a valid concept.
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ABC One Plus One on George Gittoes Here George talks on the mystic and war
3.
A look at his film the Snow Monkey
4. In Texas
5. Iraq Exhibition 2004 No Exit @ Maquarie Uni.
