Art Bites: Rex Butler – Modernism and Miffy
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Miffy is a modernist little creature with her hard black lines and primary colours. Her creator, Dutch artist Dick Bruna, was highly influenced by both the German art movement the Bauhaus and the Dutch art movement De Stijl. In this lecture, we offer a brief overview of both movements and how they contained within them, perhaps against their creators' original intentions, the potential for a children's book character like Miffy.
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About Rex Butler
Rex Butler has written about Australian art and artists since the late 1980s. He has written and edited several books on Australian art and is involved with the online Melbourne art review website Memo Review. He is Professor of Art History in the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture at Monash University.
Image: Dick BRUNA
miffy at the gallery
Illustration Dick Bruna © copyright Mercis bv, 1990
Check out our next Arts Bites session with Carla McRae on Thursday 3 June
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