Charles Blackman 'Schoolgirls, from Girls and Flowers portfolio' first nations artist Cast in pale blues and

Cast in pale blues and cream

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Charles Blackman 'Schoolgirls, from Girls and Flowers portfolio' first nations artist Cast in pale blues andFrom the revered Girls and Flowers Portfolio, this work is quintessential Charles Blackman. It is evocative and mysterious a vestige of feeling over exactness. Reminiscent of his Schoolgirls series, Girl with Plaits sees a girl lying prone. She faces away from us, her hair parted to reveal the nape of her neck. The setting is ambiguous an expansive cream landscape cut against by black sky. Perhaps shes on the moon. Fluent in the language of emotion,