Rick Amor [peintre]

Self Portrait with a Postcard of Greco Roman Bust

Rick Amor

Citation :

Rick Amor (born 3 March 1948) is an Australian artist and figurative painter. He was an Official War Artist.

In 1999 he was one of the first Australian artists to be appointed as the Official War Artist to East Timor by the Australian War Memorial, and the first since the end of the Vietnam War.

His work borrows heavily from the pictorial inheritance of Symbolism and Surrealism. There is always a poetic mystery and sense of menace, even in apparently journalistic work, such as the East Timor paintings. His major themes are the solitary watcher, figures at twilight, the vast emptiness of urban spaces and quiet mysterious interiors. His works resonate with powerful symbolism, and his landscapes in particular are full of disquieting atmosphere, with objects bathed in half light and shadows.

A Sebastian Smee, a reviewer of Amor's 2008 retrospective exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art, concluded that he was

“convinced not only of Amor's singularity in contemporary Australian art -- there is really nobody like him -- but of his importance. His commitment is unmistakable, his intelligence acute, and his best images impossible to forget.”

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East Timor



Outlying districts, 1991



Silent River, 1999

... je laisse kenavo (et d'autres ?) compléter. c'est la très bonne surprise cette découverte ce matin. et merci encore à thusreluctant.tumblr.com (et plein d'autres belles choses encore sur ce foutu blog !)

animal a écrit:

... je laisse kenavo (et d'autres ?) compléter

papperlapapp... il est trop bon pour ne pas avoir son propre fil


Astor Place, Subway, 1996


Study for “The Secret City”, 1993-2001


Afternoon by the Sea, 2005

je n'avais pas pris le temps de dire merci.   


Ithaca, 2011

même pas besoin


Victorian House, 1999

toujours en plein LC des îles... pas seulement avec des livres



The Island