Brett Whiteley

When I started visual arts and was exploring different painters to influence my work in some way, I came across Brett Whiteley. Whiteley is an Australian artist and he has traveled throughout his life creating massive, beautiful and colourful paintings along the way. What i learned about Whitley and what influences him, is that he takes parts of his life at the time and creates them into art. He is greatly influenced by life experiences, travel and his love for Australia. Some of his paintings are of Australia and the outback. What i love about Whiteley is the way he creates such different paintings, they are realistic yet not at the same time, E.g, His painting "The Olga's" You can clearly see that its of the Australian outback with the golden mountains, the big blue sky and the Australian cultural objects and images he has placed around. Yet he has added a strange oddity to it , the mountains are shaped differently his little creatures are a bit warped, this whole painting just draws you in. Out of all his painting series; drawing series, portrait series and cultural series, His landscape series are my favorite and they have influenced my own landscape paintings with adding lots of colour and creatures, creating something different from all the rest.

Whiteley's painting " The most beautiful mountain" is one of my favorites, i love the natural colours and scenery and the calming feel. Whiteley painted this picture when he was on vacation with his family and his feelings at the time really do express through this painting.

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The Olgas

The Most Beautiful Mountain