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The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize, and is the most prominent of all arts prizes, in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after a bequest from J F Archibald, the editor of The Bulletin who died in 1919. It is administered by the Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and awarded for "the best portrait, preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, Science or Politics, painted by an artist resident in Australasia during the 12 months preceding the date fixed by the Trustees for sending in the pictures." The Archibald Prize is awarded annually and as of 2007, the prize is A$35,000. _______xXcourtney loves drew 4 eva Xx_______ Image File history File links Gheerhaets_Allegory_iconoclasm. ...
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Self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh A portrait is a painting, photograph, or other artistic representation of a person. ...
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J F Archibald (1856-1919), Australian journalist and publisher, was co-owner and editor of the Sydney Bulletin during the days of its greatest influence in Australian politics and literary life. ...
The Bulletin is an Australian weekly magazine, which has been published in Sydney since 1880. ...
The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) located in The Domain in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, is the most important public gallery in Sydney and the second largest in Australia after the National Gallery of Victoria. ...
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History The first prize awarded in 1921 was £400. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (824x1048, 78 KB) John Longstaff (1861-1941), Dr Alexander Leeper. ...
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In the early years of the Archibald Prize, the winner was dominated by Victorians, such as McInnes, Longstaff, and Dargie, which was somewhat resented by the art community in Sydney. Capital Melbourne Government Constitutional monarchy Governor David de Kretser Premier Steve Bracks (ALP) Federal representation - House seats 37 - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05) - Product ($m) $222,022 (2nd) - Product per capita $44,443/person (5th) Population (End of September 2006) - Population 5,110,500 (2nd) - Density 22. ...
In 1942 William Dargie won the prize with a painting which he had done as an official war artist during World War 2 in Syria. The ship carrying the painting back to Australia sank and was underwater for some time. Vasily Vereshchagin. ...
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1946 was the first year in which the trustees selected works for entry, rather than displaying all those entered. Less than half of the entries were chosen for exhibition.
Another notable winner is the 1956 portrait of Australia's first aboriginal citizen, painter Albert Namatjira, by William Dargie. Namatjira is one of the most famous Australian Aboriginal artists and the portrait was done while he was visiting Sydney from the Central Desert. He died only a few years after the portrait was painted. In 1956 the Archibald prize money was 682 pounds 13 shillings and 8 pence. Indigenous Australians are descendants of the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands. ...
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Namatjira outside Government House, Sydney, circa 1947. ...
Sir William Dargie, (1912-2003) Australian painter, known especially for his portrait paintings. ...
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In 1964 and 1980 the Trustees decided not to award the prize to anyone, deeming that no work was at the required standard.
http://www.thearchibaldprize.com.au There are usually about 200 entries in the Archibald Prize, of which only about 100 or so are selected as finalists for hanging. Only one entry is allowed per person each year. Some of the winning artists have had to enter for many years before they were hung. In 2005, comedian Peter Berner made a documentary called Loaded Brush which interviewed fourteen selected Australian painters and showed how many times each of them had entered compared with how many times they had been hung as finalists, shown in the following table (asterix denotes winners of the main prize): Peter Berner, Australian comedian. ...
Entrants in 2006 include a painting of one of the The Wiggles by Patrick Whiteley,[1] actor Steve Bisley by Bronwyn Graham,[2] Garry McDonald by Paul Jackson which is said to be a favourite with the packers,[3] Steve Bracks by Garry Anderson,[4] Cate Blanchett by McLean Edwards, Ernie Dingo by Marie Klement,[5] Dennis Lillee by Melinda Mackay,[6] Wilbur Wilde by Phillip Howe,[7] Peter Slipper by Wayne Strickland.[8] The 2006 prize winner is Marcus Wills with his painting The Paul Juraszek monolith (after Marcus Gheeraerts).[9] Jenny Sages is an Australian artist born 1933 in Shanghai, China, who arrived in Australia in 1948. ...
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Adam Cullen (1965- ), Australian artist, most known for winning the Archibald Prize in 2000 with a portrait of actor David Wenham. ...
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Steve Bisley (born 1951 at Lake Munmorah, New South Wales, Australia), is a well-known Australian actor, who attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art. ...
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Stephen Philip Bracks (born October 15, 1954), Australian politician, has been Premier of Victoria since 1999. ...
Catherine Élise Blanchett (born on May 14, 1969) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning Australian actress. ...
Ernie Dingo (born 31 July 1956) is a Pedercina from the Maheleny region of Western Australia. ...
Dennis Keith Lillee (born July 18, 1949 in Subiaco, Western Australia) was an Australian cricketer. ...
Wilbur Wilde (born Nicholas Nick Aitken on 5 October 1955) is an Australian saxophonist. ...
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Controversy
 W B McInnes's Portrait of Miss Collins won the 1924 Archibald Prize. There was criticism that she was not someone "distinguished" in art, letters, science or politics. The prize has historically attracted a good deal of controversy and several court cases; the most famous was in 1943 when William Dobell's winning painting of Joshua Smith was challenged because of claims it was a caricature rather than a portrait. Image File history File links McInnes_Miss_Collins_1924. ...
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William Beckwith McInnes (May 18, 1889 - November 9, 1939), was a famous Australian portrait painter (although he did paint landscapes as well). ...
Sir William Dobell (24 September 1899 - 13 May 1970) was an Australian artist (sculptor and painter). ...
Max Meldrum criticised the Archibald Prize winner in 1938, saying that women could not be expected to paint as well as men. Nora Heysen was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize, with a portrait of Madame Elink Schuurman, the wife of the Consul General for the Netherlands. Max Meldrum (1875-1955), Australian painter who twice won the Archibald Prize in 1939 and 1940. ...
Nora Heysen AM (January 11, 1911 - December 30, 2003) was an Australian artist, the first woman to win the prestigious Archibald Prize for portraiture and the first Australian women appointed as an official war artist. ...
In 1952 several art students including John Olsen protested William Dargie's winning portrait, the seventh time he had been awarded the prize. One protester tied a sign around her dog which said "Winner Archibald Prize - William Doggie". Dargie went on to win the prize again in 1956. John Olsen born 1928, is an Australian artist. ...
After Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was dismissed he refused to sit for the traditional portrait which is done of Australian Prime Ministers, and instructed that the 1972 Archibald Prize winning portrait by Clifton Pugh be used instead. This is now hanging at New Parliament House in Canberra. Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC (born 11 July 1916), known as Gough Whitlam (, pronounced Goff), Australian politician and 21st Prime Minister of Australia. ...
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Clifton Pugh, AO, (December 17, 1924 - October 14, 1990) was an Australian artist, who won the Archibald Prize three times, and an Order of Australia medal in 1985. ...
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In 1975, John Bloomfield's portrait of Tim Burstall was disqualified on the grounds that it had been painted from a blown up photograph, rather than from life. The prize was then awarded to Kevin Connor. Later, legal action was threatened by John Bloomfield in 1981, claiming that the winner that year, Eric Smith had not painted his subject from life. In 1983 John Bloomfield sued for the return of the 1975 prize which was unsuccessful. In 1995 the application form of the Archibald Prize was modified based on this to make clear that the subject must be painted from life. Eric Smith is an Australian artist who has won the Archibald Prize for portraiture three times: in 1970 with Gruzman - Architect; in 1981 with Rudy Komon; and in 1982 with Peter Sculthorpe. ...
In 1985, administration of the trust was transferred to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, after a court case where the Perpetual Trustee Company took the Australian Journalists Association Benevolent Fund to court.
In 1997 the painting of the Bananas in Pyjamas television characters by Evert Ploeg was deemed ineligible by the trustees because it was not a painting of a person. Although this was an incident which was seized upon by the media, hundreds of portraits each year are not accepted as finalists. Bananas in Pyjamas is an Australian childrens television show which premiered in 1992 on the ABC. It has since become syndicated in many different countries, and dubbed into those languages. ...
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Another controversy involved the 2000 Archibald winner, when artist Adam Cullen lodged a complaint with the ABC who had used his painting, Portrait of David Wenham, in a television commercial. Adam Cullen (1965- ), Australian artist, most known for winning the Archibald Prize in 2000 with a portrait of actor David Wenham. ...
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In 2002, head packer Steve Peters singled out a painting of himself by Dave Machin as a possible winner for the Packing Room Prize. It did not win, but it was hung outside the Archibald exhibition. Following this, portraits of the head packer were no longer allowed.
In 2004 Craig Ruddy's image of David Gulpilil, which won both the main prize and the "People's Choice" award, was challenged on the basis that it was a charcoal sketch rather than a painting. The claim was dismissed in the Supreme Court in June 2006.[10] Craig Ruddy (born August 8 1968, Forestville, Sydney) is an Australian artist. ...
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Additional Categories Since 1988 there have been two extra categories added to the Archibald prize event. Both are more likely to award a celebrity such as actor or musician, than the main prize. One of them being the Packing Room Prize in which the staff, who receive the portraits and install them in the gallery, vote for their choice of winner. Although the prize was not very well judged is said to be awarded by the staff, the gallery's storeman, Steve Peters, has held 51% of the vote since 1991, when the first Packing room prize was given. The other category is the Peoples Choice Award in which votes from the viewing public are collected to find a winner. This award also comes with a monetary prize of $2,500. To date, there has never been a matching Archibald Prize winner and a Packing Room Prize chosen in the same year, but there were two Peoples Choice Awards given to Archibald Prize winners in 1988 and 2004.
Twice there has been a matching Packing prize winner and Peoples choice award (neither won the main prize), to Paul Newton's portrait of Roy Slaven and HG Nelson in 2001, and to Jan Williamson's portrait of singer/songwriter Jenny Morris the following year in 2002. His portrait of David Campese shown on an advertising banner outside Old Parliament House in Canberra. ...
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Associated prizes The Archibald is held at the same time as the Sulman prize, the Wynne prize, the recent Australian Photographic Portrait Prize and was held with the Dobell Prize before 2003. The Archibald prize is the second richest portrait prize in Australia, before the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. However, the Archibald is the only artist's prize that receives much attention in the general press. Part of the reason is probably that many of the paintings feature prominent Australians such as actors, sportspeople, and politicians, and thus making the art more accessible than other genres. It is also longer running with a richer tradition than the newer established portrait prizes. Sulman Prize, one of Australias longest running art prizes. ...
Wynne Prize, Australian landscape painting or figure sculpture art prize. ...
Australian Photographic Portrait Prize, art prize held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in conjunction with the Archibald Prize, Wynne Prize and Sulman Prize. ...
Dobell Prize for drawing, Australian art prize held by the Art Gallery of New South Wales the highest prize for drawing in Australia. ...
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, the richest Australian portrait prize, and also the richest portrait prize in the world, with a prize of $100,000 in 2005. ...
In 1978 Brett Whiteley won the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes all in the same year, the first and only time this has happened. It was his second win for the Archibald and the other prizes as well. Front of the Brett Whiteley gallery in Surry Hills, Sydney For other uses, see Brett Whiteley (disambiguation). ...
Some works which do not make the Archibald Prize finalists are shown at the Salon des Refusés exhibition, which began in 1992. Salon des Refuses, a popular Australian art exhibition which shows some of the rejected works to the Archibald Prize, Australias most prestigious art prize for portraiture, and also some of the rejected Wynne Prize entries. ...
The satirical Bald Archy Prize was started in 1994 as a parody of the Archibald Prize, at the Coolac Festival of Fun, and had so many visitors that it was moved to Sydney. The Bald Archy is an Australian art prize, a parody of the Archibald Prize. ...
See also YOUR GAY Bold textThis is a list of winners of the Archibald Prize for portraiture. ...
References - ^ Courier Mail
- ^ Tamworth guide
- ^ Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ The Courier
- ^ The Advertiser
- ^ Sunday Times
- ^ Wilde at Heart
- ^ Sunshine coast daily
- ^ Media release from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 February 2006
- ^ Archibald challenge thrown out of court
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