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Heath Heath Heath
BelAir:
--- Quote from: Nikita111 on January 25, 2008, 08:52:20 am ---I am still so sad. It feels like sunlight went away of my life. I feel completely miserable still at the edge of bursting into tears.
I don't understand how ypu are dealing with it. I am dying. Dearest, Heath beloved. I am so unhappy. I love you so much.
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sometimes I feel like I am coping just fine, and other times I just feel like I am in a giant state of denial, and other times I just want to vomit, and other times I am not sure anything is real.
everyone "deals" on a different schedule...
loneleeb3:
--- Quote from: BelAir on January 25, 2008, 05:07:38 pm ---sometimes I feel like I am coping just fine, and other times I just feel like I am in a giant state of denial, and other times I just want to vomit, and other times I am not sure anything is real.
everyone "deals" on a different schedule...
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I agree.
I am so tired of being sad.
Kerry:
--- Quote from: oilgun on January 25, 2008, 10:30:40 am ---I agree with you Kerry, it's an amazing portrait and I really hope it wins, but then I'm biased. It's beautiful, honest and revealing and under the circumstances, heartbreaking. A wonderful and unexpected gift, really, the artist is very talented. I just love it!
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I wish I had the money to buy it. I would proudly hang it in my home.
Alas, I can't afford it. And besides it may not be for sale. Or, alternatively, it may have already been sold, given the circumstances surrounding the sitter. :'(
The terms of the Archibald bequest are very strict and unless I'm mistaken (I could be wrong here), I think the subject of the painting should be a living Australian who has distinguished his/herself in public life (the arts, letters, politics, academia, etc.) in the previous twelve months. The operative word here being "living." If this is the case, the painting will not be accepted for hanging by the Archibald committee. Sad but true.
I have entered portraits in the Archibald in the past. It is an open exhibition and anyone can do so, so long as you fulfill the requirements of the Archibald bequest. The Art Gallery of New South Wales usually gets several hundred entries each year and they ruthlessly cull them down to a couple of dozen paintings hung. Needless to say, I have always been culled in the past.
Whether or not it is chosen for hanging, I will still attend the Archibald this year, and dedicate my visit to Heath.
I do so hope his portrait will be there.
Post Script:
Just before posting this entry, I checked the Archibald conditions of entry and found that the exact requirements do not relate to the sitter having to be alive. I was wrong there. Rather, they stipulate that the painting must be painted from life ; i.e., the subject must physically sit for the painting - it cannot be painted from a photograph. So, fingers crossed that the Archibald committee will view it favourably and choose to hang it.
Here's the link:
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:bAYvSotopw4J:www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/__data/page/133/Archibald_Prize_07_pages.pdf+archibald+prize+entry&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=au
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: Lucise on January 25, 2008, 01:55:51 pm ---
The Golden Boy
in
Golden Years (A Knight's Tale)..
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyrJANFJKec[/youtube]
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Thanks Milli, never enough viewings of this, NE. So weird to see something so lively and vital. I think I've said this before, I wish there was a version with the "Alma" guy cut out.
BelAir:
there are things I hope I will always associate with Heath: stripes, square sunglasses, smurfy hats...
this is striped picture I saw today, that I haven't seen previously.
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