The Creative eye: thoughts on painting by some contemporary artists

Australia, 1982

Film
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Episode number 1 of Series “The Australian eye V”.
The film is intended as a background to the whole “Australian eye” collection. Ten artists, with a variety of styles, are shown working on their paintings and talking about their problems. Students seeing the film should quickly realise that all true artists have to evolve their own methods of realising ideas and that there is no magic formula for achieving good paintings. Artists includes Sally Robinson, Col Jorden, Terrence O’Donnell, Rod Milgate, Suzanne Archer, Peter Powditch, John Firth-Smith, Kevin Conner, Ann Thompson and Alan Oldfield.

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Credits

director

David Muir

producer

Malcolm Otton

production company

Film Australia

Duration

00:13:00:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1982

Appears in

The Australian eye V

Group of items

The Australian eye V

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

015265

Language

English

Subject categories

Crafts & Visual Arts → Artists - Australia

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Australia

Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Creative ability

Short films

Short films → Short films - Australia

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

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