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hahaha... >From: tonni malakian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Bill Leak: The Last of the Larrikins >August 18, 2002 >Reporter : Max Cullen >Producer : Catherine Hunter >Former Labor minister and broadcaster, Graham Richardson, describes Bill >Leak as the "last great leftie" in Australia. And his cartoons certainly >show no sympathy with the Howard Government. But Bill Leak is not just a >cartoonist. He's also a caricaturist, a portrait painter and most recently, >a radio host. > >Max Cullen profiles Bill Leak, a self-described schizophrenic, who says of >his work, "one side of the work is immortalising people in painting >portraits or trying to make an enduring statement through painting and the >other side is taking the piss mercilessly out of people and I enjoyed both >equally and still do." Max spent a day with him in the offices of The >Australian as he created his "Australo Politicus" cartoon Leak's take on >the finding of a seven-million-year-old skull in the African desert. He >traces the evolution of prehistoric man to John Howard. Leak told Cullen, >"I >believe these early hominids have very pronounced bottom lips ... put a bit >of hair [there] and incredibly, almost miraculously, it looks a lot like >John Howard ? and I think I am onto something here." > > Warren Brown, a cartoonist for the Sydney Daily Telegraph, told Max, "He >has >this thing about John Howard and every time he opens The Australian ? Bill >has him down pat, and he's got this kind of ape-like quality to him and >when >GST came in, his lip became 10 percent bigger and his face drips out like >that." Cullen asked Leak if he thought John Howard found his cartoons >funny. >Leak answered with a straight face, "I'm sure he does. I'm sure he looks >forward to them. I wouldn't do it if he didn't." > > Given those views, Graham Richardson praises the bravery of Leak. "He's >got >a ton of courage, but there is always that hint that he might be a bit >troppo and I think that he likes that and doesn't try to hide it. I think >he >is out on the edge and that's the only place that Bill Leak would want to >sit." Comedian Richard Fidler adds, "I think Bill is probably the premier >cartoonist in this country. He is always prepared to go much further than >other cartoonists." > > Robert Desmond Leak, who has always been known as Bill, was born into a >musical family. His father Reg was a working man with strong left-wing >views >and his mother was a piano teacher. They hoped he would become a musician, >but he always wanted to be an artist. After school, Leak went to Julian >Ashton's to study art. It was here that he found a flair for portraiture. > > Conductor Richard Gill said, "When I first knew him, his passion was >painting. There were no two ways about it. He was painting furiously and >was >painting all sorts of stuff. There were portraits, still lifes, and it was >fast and furious." One of his early commissions was to paint Australian >icon, Sir Donald Bradman ? a daunting prospect. But Leak did so well, >Bradman let him do a second painting, for the National Portrait Gallery. >"Bradman complained, 'look at that face,' and I said 'what's the matter >with >it?' 'You've made me look too old,' and I said 'that's what you will look >like when you are old'." > > Leak has lost the Archibald Prize more times than anyone else. Max >Cullen >talks to a former victim, Graham Richardson, who sat for Leak in 1995. "You >will always see yourself as somewhat more handsome, more debonair and more >dashing than perhaps the painter," said Richardson. "I thought no-one could >be that ugly but maybe I was wrong." Leak said Richardson was disgusted >with >it, and told him: "I suppose in your arty-farty parlance, you'd regard this >a breakthrough, wouldn't you? Why couldn't you have had your bloody >breakthrough with someone else's portrait?" > > Among his many losing Archibald portraits are Chow Hayes, Malcolm >Turnbull, >Les Patterson, Tex Perkins and Robert Hughes. Last year's entry, art critic >Robert Hughes, seemed to be a shoo-in for the prize, but again he lost. >Richard Fidler said, "In the Hughes portrait, you really get a sense of >Hughes after his car crash as a broken man, mostly in body, but somewhat in >spirit as well, yet there is the defiant face there..." > > Fellow cartoonist, Fiona Katauskas, says of Leak, "He's a total bloke, >like >a classic Australian character: elbows up at the pub, the womanising thing, >and stuff like that. He embodies [the] larrikin character [that] runs >throughout his work, his personality, his mates that he has." Meredith >Burgmann, the President of the NSW Legislative Council, agrees. "He is an >unashamed bleeding heart about issues like Aborigines, the Republic, >poverty. He is just an old-fashioned bleeding heart and I love that." >Leak adds, "When I started doing the cartoons that very first one, I >thought 'Bob Hawke will see this', and I couldn't sleep because I was so >excited at the thought that he was going to see it and that has never, ever >left me. Whenever I do a cartoon, people will say, 'John Howard is going to >hate that one,' and I always think, yeah, I reckon he will." > > "As Patrick Cook (Bulletin cartoonist) said, the life expectancy of a >cartoon is about 10 seconds," says Leak, "but every now and then someone >will cut the cartoon out and put it on the fridge with a magnet. And that's >the cartoonist's equivalent of being hung in the Louvre." > > Graham Richardson sums it up best. "Every society needs people like Bill >Leak, people on the edge. People who push, sometimes who push too hard ? >and >we've lost a lot of those people." _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pakarti/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
