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Ho...Ho...Ho...
Well.... it is this
time of the year again.
Got your red hat ready and filled your fridge with all the goodies? great... Some presents?....of course, haven't you heard it is Christmas! Many, me included, like to make Christmas gifts using items relating to the fine arts, especially when dealing with the younger members of our families and friends, for this is a good way to engender an early love for the arts. Recently, while I was on the look out for such items in the various shops I’ve come to notice a new deluge of glossy, “arty” calendars that always seem to be prominently displayed for the customer at every turn.
Taking a good
look was really a disappointment for
just about all of them had this visual clichés that have, sadly, become associated with Australia. Repetition of these images ad infinitum has but reached the critical stage of causing a reversed effect. Why don’t such publishers draw on the great and varied heritage of Australian art to give the general public at large the chance to sample some really great, locally grown art? Is it the royalties’ cost for the right to reproduce such works? or is it the wrong assumption on the behalf of these publishers, that most people don’t want to know or don’t care so long it is something filling that space on the wall or whatever. I really can’t understand it. I think there is a genuine need in our society for wider publication and distribution of Australian art, contemporary modern art in particular. I also think that younger and emerging artists could vastly benefit from such an undertaking and it wouldn't cost the earth either.
Those big-wigs presiding
over the fat establishment's
soulless hierarchy, surely could spare some of the money that is wasted on stupid so called arts projects to give some of these emerging artists a chance to have their work becoming more known to the common man. How about it dear officialdom overseers and eternal
custodians of the
holy purse?.....
It is Christmas
after all.
On a different note, though..... I like to wish each and everyone of you dear readers a very happy and safe Christmas and many thanks for your continued contributions and support. We’ll see you in the February’s edition as we are having some R&R right through January. So, once again, all the best to you and ENJOY! |