A lovely article - but there’s something a bit old fashioned about many of the characters in Warneys painting - many of characters more his parents generation than his - so perhaps it was partly a tribute to his mum & dad
I think it was a couple of things; there was very little context to what it was about and Shane was quite bombastic on comms at the time. Laying the boot in was low hanging fruit.
Probably a bit of tall poppy in it too; commissioning an artwork of any sort would probably not be considered ‘aussie everyman’ behaviour.
A lovely article - but there’s something a bit old fashioned about many of the characters in Warneys painting - many of characters more his parents generation than his - so perhaps it was partly a tribute to his mum & dad
What an interesting, and quite endearing work. I don’t why some were so snooty about its grand excess and Warne’s commission of it.
I think it was a couple of things; there was very little context to what it was about and Shane was quite bombastic on comms at the time. Laying the boot in was low hanging fruit.
Probably a bit of tall poppy in it too; commissioning an artwork of any sort would probably not be considered ‘aussie everyman’ behaviour.
The fact that his brother Jason is in painting supports this