Charles Blackman 'Butterfly Web' etching he is a romantic myth

he is a romantic myth

Deborah Klein’s visual language is distinct

He treats his subject as both sculptural and someone with a rich inner life

Plants coil around them

with each bulbous boab and watchful emu a jewel on the blackened earth

Charles Blackman 'Butterfly Web' etching he is a romantic mythButterflies are recurrent motifs in Charles Blackmans work. They flutter through his gardens, streets and Wonderland, winking at the idea of transformation. Indeed, butterflies evolving from lowly caterpillars into flight are a utopian ideal made real. It is true that our identity is in constant movement, and our hope that it will follow the butterfly. In this exceptionally rare work, Charles Blackman uses the butterfly to express the general by the