Charles Blackman 'Eye within a swirl' impressionism National Gallery of South Australia

National Gallery of South Australia

is in constant

'Wankamalalt Kulpii'

critique and poeticism

In greyscale

Charles Blackman 'Eye within a swirl' impressionism National Gallery of South AustraliaEyes recur throughout Charles Blackmans work. They are objects of transfixion to us all windows to the soul, betrayers of emotion and bearers of connection. In Blackmans life however, they take on an autobiographical cadence; his wife, Barbara Blackman, went blind in the first rushes of Charless artistic fame. As his visual world opened, hers blurred. Eye within a swirl evokes this complexity. From the artists archives, it pictures an eye squinting