Pretty pictures, big stories, Tim Johnson: painting ideas

Authors

Ian A. McLean, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

68433

Publication Details

McLean, I. A. (2010). Pretty Pictures, Big Stories, Tim Johnson: Painting ideas. Eyeline, 71 44-53.

Additional Publication Information

The exhibition, 'Tim Johnson: Painting Ideas', begins in the early 1970s with Johnson's droll fixation on miniskirts blowin' in the wind, and ends with the sugary spiritualism of his contemporary paintings. The New Wave gives way to the New Age. It is a familiar story but this passage from ironic voyeurism to sweet Enlightenment is as perplexing as ever.

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