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from the 1957 painting
sometimes disconcerting — engrosses the viewer
Tomlinson is a quietly thrilling find
is there anything more liberating than to dance
reminiscent of foliage caramelised under the Australian sun
Charles Blackman 'Metamorphosis' impressionism from the 1957 paintingIn Metamorphosis, Charles Blackman captures his beloved Alice enraptured by change. The work speaks to a universal yet deeply personal experience of transition, where imagination shapes reality and feeling becomes a form of sight. As poet Judith Wright observed, Blackmans images ask us to apprehend through emotion as much as through looking. Here, the figure dissolves and reforms within a field of graphic flowers and symbolic fragments, an aesthetic
