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Richard R Cornish (born 1942) is an Australian art theoretician and practitioner. He is a multicultural artist, writer, poet, teacher, and left-wing political activist. He has won many prizes for his art and draughtsmanship and was a top student at the National Art School. His art works span the period from 1955 until today showing the influence of modernism, Mexican social realism and Asian multiculturalism. The artwork and writing exhibits radical, militant and human responses to the main themes of our time such as protest at the Vietnam War, the emergence of women's liberation, questions of social injustice, economic crisis and ecology. ==References== Statements Richard Cornish's Art and Writing: ‘An impressive performance — full of new insights into the nature of artistic personalities of that time (the Cinquecento) and deeply moving in the poetry of its style!’.〔The late Professor Fredrick Hartt. US. World Renaissance specialist〕 In a written comment and evaluation of Cornish’s MA dissertation’ Conceits of Unfulfilment’〔Flinders Uni Library archives. Australia, 1983.〕‘I would be very pleased to accept it (painting of Vietnamese Guernica) into the Memorial’s Collection .It will be an important addition to the collection as a sincere statement about the effect of the war on the Vietnamese people, a subject otherwise not represented... On Richard Cornish’s Anti -War Painting. Vietnamese Guernica ’Elena Rensch (A/G) Curator of Art for Director, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1 Dec 1992. ‘There’s startling poetry in Cornish’s prose. You can feel him controlling it gently and come away from the book haunted by its visual imagery. Although The Woman Lilith sets out to find the one mythical answer to the question -Who is Lilith-What is Art-What is life, the book is full of many small triumphs of discovery. And small though they may be, the book’s belief in them leaves you with a feeling that the question is being answered constantly...’ ‘It’s a terrific title!...Lilith, the first wife of Adam, rebellious, beautiful, damned, a vampire, a demon, challenge to God himself.... The novel attempts to understand this woman -and attempt to define, confine her only to reveal at every turn the impossibility of doing so. She is always changing...there is an appealing aestheticism in this writing, even in the use of colour description. The novel has a sirenic ring, this fine novel opens on a cerulean blue morning 'Adams First Wife' Reviewed by.〔Mark Macleod, SMH,2 Aug 1975〕 ‘Many of his (Cornish's) art works contain a feel of erotic sensualism. The (multicultural) exhibition explores the changing identity of Australian culture brought about by the influence of Asia... 'Jude Mac Bean' Artist Depicts Cultural Mix'.〔Art Review, Daily Examiner, Grafton, NSW. Wed 17 Sep page 2 1997〕 ‘Cornish's book is vibrant with the character of Lilith. Her letters and diary are intensely personal in her self searching and in her paintings of the world around her ...Her narrative also has a vivid and dazzling quality which allows things to speak for themselves ...'〔Nigel Krauth, Westerly. Australia No 1, p87〕 March 1976. ‘The Woman Lilith concerns a young woman's search for vitality, genuineness and freedom in a society too often deadening, false and restrictive... '.〔Nigel Krauth, Bathurst Advocate, Sept 75〕 ‘His landscapes show a very rare and sensitive feeling for nature...'.〔Artist Lloyd Rees, AGNSW. Sydney. Australia. 1967〕 ‘Male authors can't always see clearly into their women characters, but Richard Cornish seems to have his Lilith just right....〔L.V Kepert Sun Herald, Sydney, 6 July 1975〕 ‘Richard's art seems to capture and portray the very rhythm and energy of life itself in his works...' The late.〔Anne Von Bertough, Von Bertough galley. Gallery Owner and Director. Cooks Hill. NSW〕 ‘We might have a creative person of very great talent on our hands...'.〔Geoffrey Dutton, Australian Book Publisher and Literary Historian. Correspondence of Roland Robson.1975〕 ‘Lilith is an art student, a life lover and truth teller, intense, passionate, and vibrant with energy in a grey society...'.〔John Tittensor National Review, 11 July 1975〕 ‘Richard is essentially an allegorical painter... ' Dictionary of Australian Artists'. Comp Gwenda Robb, Elaine Smith Ed .Robert Smith,.〔Melbourne Uni Press, 1993〕 Lilith is a haunting character, and her predicaments are not just those of an artist but those of a human being with added sensuality and tough honesty of an artist...'.〔Geoffrey Dutton, archival Letter 10thFeb 1973 Kapunda, SA〕 'Lilith is a spirited girl. The book opens vividly and strongly representing Lilith and her background and then moves largely into her letters and journals...'‘Lilith and her Offspring'.〔Elizabeth Riddell, the Australian, March 1975〕 ‘Cornish is a vigorous, sincere and robust painter seemingly strongly influenced by ideas of Noel Counihan...'.〔Dora Chapman, art critic, Advertiser 24 October 1969〕 ‘Richard is an artist who paints with his nut...'〔Noel Counihan, Archival Letters, Melbourne, Canterbury, Feb,1967.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Cornish」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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