Here’s my next question. Should my painting be 1) conventional 2) rebel 3) radical rebel?
(Please write your suggestion in the comments below)
I’ve shared what previous victors did to win the Archibald (basically a very large oil painting of an artist in a colourful in a realistic or expressionist style).
Art, however is for the rulebreakers. Think Monet with his dabs of paint and Picasso with his square shapes that changed what people thought was ‘good’. So too the Archibald has had its renegades. William Dobell in 1943 won with a famous caricature that broke convention. Brett Whiteley in 1976 shocked with his self portrait (a reflection in a hand mirror in his studio surrounded by personal objects).
So what should my approach be?
And in which trait? a) materials b) subject c) size/shape d) colour e) style