Donald Friend in Bali by Donald Friend
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Overview: This book, entitled simply Donald Friend in Bali, was first published in 1972. It is a kind of diary with illustrations. Friend was born on the North Shore in Sydney in 1915, of an old colonial family. He spent his boyhood years there and in 1930 he began to attend art clases. In 1936 he sailed to London and enrolled at the Westminster School. The following year he exhibited at R.E.A. Wilson’s Galleries with Augustus John, Sickert and Stanley Spencer. In 1937, tiring of London, he left for West Africa where he hoped “to get to the source of the negro experience”. He spent the next two years at Ikerre whose Ogoga (chief) made him his financial adviser. Between 1946 and 1962 he travelled widely (including five years in Ceylon), gaining considerably in experience. After that he made his home in Bali.
Friend performed one remarkable synthesis. His figure paintings are at the intersection of two ideas which are normally thought incompatible, even contradictory: the nude as object of sensual desire, and the male nude as an image in the Renaissance category of uoma di virtu. To achieve this combination without vulgarizing his imagery or revolting his audience was Friend’s triumph of sensibility, and no other painter in the twentieth century did it with such force and nobility.
Genre: Art, Painters, Memoir
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