Brett whiteley essay

Artwork Whiteley creates artworks by expressing his wild mind through a range of techniques using a range of mediums such as photographic media, oil paints and charcoal “Art Life and the Other Thing” and “Christie”.

Whiteley has used fragmenting in the work which roughly divides the piece into eight outlined rectangles of different sizes that include the subjects. The fragmenting is caused by the unpredictable vertical and horizontal lines which create barriers between the subjects. Cultural: Whiteley’s work includes images of sex, violence and social themes.

Whiteley spent a part of his teenage hood at the boarding school but dropped out in 1954 to work in advertising. He also attended a night drawing class at the Ashton Art school in Sydney. At the age of sixteen, Whiteley’s passion and appreciation of art was firmly established.

Whiteley’s work provokes a sense of fear in the 1964 work “Christie”. The pairing of the identifiable portrait of Christie and his circular glasses with images of reclined female bodies over the page sets an unnerving mood throughout the work.