![]() He then moved to New York his hometown for more than 40 years. He spent time in London, sampling the Sixties counterculture. In 1964 he moved to Port Ercole in Italy where, having seen the Piero della Francesco frescoes in Arezzo, he gave up serious painting: “I realised… I could never give my own work a decent review.” He began to travel extensively throughout Europe studying medieval and Renaissance painting, sculpture and architecture. Then, after reporting on an exhibition for a journal that had just fired its regular contributor, he became a full-time art critic, financing his apprenticeship through the sale of his own pictures. He worked as a political cartoonist with a local newspapers. which he called, “Australian De Kooning’s”. For a while he painted abstract expressionist paintings. He left before completing his Architecture course. Hughes was educated at the Roman Catholic St Ignatius College and Sydney University, where Germaine Greer was a fellow student. ![]() Nor was he the puppet of art market forces, which dominate the present contemporary art scene.īorn Robert Studley Forrest Hughes in Sydney, Australia, on 28 July 1938. ![]() He was not sucked into the ethos of the post 1960’s art world. Robert Hughes was perhaps the most irreverent art critic of his generation. ![]()
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