Charles Blackman 'Titania and Bottom' expressionismThis work tells the story of Titania and Bottom from Shakespeares play, A Midsummer Nights Dream. In Shakespeares telling, Titania, Queen of the Fairies is bewitched by her husband, Oberon, to fall in love with a peasant, Nick Bottom whose head has been transmogrified into an ass. Charles Blackmans version is tender. Titania is caught in a lovers conversation, private and dreamy. There is a sweetness here, cut with distant threat; this is Blackman as
Mirka Mora drew on the forces of life
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Paper Dimensions: 23 x 29 cm
Each work is a negotiation between the artist
China and Australian Regional galleries
Interiors evoke one’s inner world
For collectors of contemporary prints
‘Winter Rose’ is a portrait of a blooming rose
One of Australia’s leading figurative expressionists
making this work a quietly beautiful collaboration between two extraordinary partners
the Universities of Melbourne and Monash
He described his non figurative response to nature thus: "I see pictorial space as an inner landscape for the minds eye to roam"
