Art Club 13

Again, we go past a few good works - Mt Erebus 1964, Salt Flats Wimmera 1966, Rainbow Over Pilbara 1982 - before I can find the next Nolan I like from the exhibition, that I could also find online.



Sidney Nolan, Chinese Mountain Landscape with Three Boats c.1982

Unfortunately, this is another small picture, online at least, but just imagine it 1.8 metres tall, as it is the gallery.  Nolan, later in life, fell in love with both China and spray paint, as a topic and medium of his art respectively.  Both of these loves can be seen in this piece.  With this painting, I love the way the mountains are shaped, so impossibly tall and thin.  The white of the clouds make this work other-worldly, and take up the attention so that you can hardly see the stylised boats in the lower right.  The colours, as I have found usual with Nolan, are stunning.