Arthur Boyd
Arthur Boyd
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd AC OBEwas a leading Australian painter of the late 20th century. Boyd's work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, and many canvases feature both. Several famous works set Biblical stories against the Australian landscape, such as The Expulsion, now at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Having a strong social conscience, Boyd's work deals with humanitarian issues and universal themes of love, loss and shame...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth24 July 1920
CountryAustralia
We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.
They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.
If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it.
I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.
If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off.
Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.
Everything I do is the environment.
If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.
I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.
You can't make people respond.