Daubism
Daubism is a school of art founded in 1991 by Australian artist Driller Jet Armstrong.
"To renowned landscape artist Charles Bannon- father of the premier of South Australia, Mr John Bannon, the painting of The Olgas is called Piccaninny’s Sunrise and is all his own work. Swirls of spray paint later and the transformation is complete: ‘Crop Circle on Bannon Landscape’ is ready for exhibition under the name of artist driller jet Armstrong.”
The Australian Sept 27 1991
“A controversial work by artist driller jet Armstrong has become the centre of a legal wrangle which could break new ground for the rights of artists in Australia.”
The Advertiser Sept 28 1991
“A painting at the centre of a federal Court battle over its legitimacy is back in the hands of the man who produced the original. It will not be seen by the public again in its present state. It was not revealed whether the artist, Charles Bannon intended to remove the “crop circle daubism” that had been added to his 1981 work ‘Piccaninny Daylight at the Olgas. But after an out of court settlement Mr Bannon has given notice that he will mount a campaign for legislation to outlaw any similar incident.”
The Age Oct 4 1991
“The daubist principle, if I have isolated it correctly, seems to be that one –subversively, critically, amusingly – takes a prior work of art and adds to it element’s of one’s own. Usually these elements will stand in satiric, hostile or opposed relation to the original”
Ken Bolton -The Advertiser 1992
“It would seem that with one white and larrikin crop circle the daubists single-handedly propounded post-modernist appropriation as an act of artistic violation, challenged both the attribution of ‘art’ as property and the creative integrity of the artist, inaugurated discussion on moral rights and reforms at both state and federal level, offended and dismayed the bourgeoisie and intelligentsia alike, and manipulated the gullibility and philistinism of the media by plonking ‘low’ art directly onto the ‘high’.”
Shane McNeil, Broadsheet, Vol 21 No 5 December 1992
“The relationship between the original work and the work of another artist forms a hybrid. An entirely new work is formed. The work by two different artists existing upon one surface is a metaphor for post-colonial discourse and highlights the potentials of a cultural hybridity.”
Stephen A, 1994-95, Australian Journal of Art. P. 31
“Daubist driller jet Armstrong has been vindicated. The Federal Government is sorry. Adelaide’s controversial father of the art genre called “daubism”, driller jet Armstrong, has received a letter of apology and the promise that official retractions will be sent to the 400 or more people and organisations around the country who were issued with copies of the government discussion paper ‘Proposed Moral Rights Legislation for Copyright Creators’.”
The Advertiser - March 6 1997
On December 21st 2000, “moral rights” for artists, were introduced into Australian Law, by the Federal Parliament, in the form of the “Copyright amendment (Moral Rights) Bill, 1999”. The push for moral rights however really came to prominence in 1991 as a result of a Federal Court injunction preventing UK born, South Australian artist, Driller Jet Armstrong from exhibiting a painting titled, “Crop Circles on a Bannon Landscape”. This particular work involved the appropriation of an original Australian landscape painting by the late Australian artist, Charles Bannon.
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