Artist field note

Sidney Nolan

A national myth painted as a mask.

Appears inOceania
The Chase by Sidney Nolan
Art Institute of Chicago · Public domainSource ↗

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The Chase

1946

Kelly moves through a bright Australian landscape like a piece of geometry that does not belong there.

The five in one idea

Nolan found a modern visual shorthand for Australian myth, then spent decades testing how much history that shorthand could carry.