Outsider (painting)

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Outsider is a painting painted in 1988 by modern indigenous Australian artist Gordon Bennett. The painting focuses on issues of the increasing isolation Indigenous Australians feel in their own country, with the date the painting was painted in (1988) being the bicentennial anniversary of white settlement in Australia. The painting is 290 × 180 cm, and was painted on canvas using Oil and Acrylic. "Outsider" was painted while Bennett was in art school. Bennett uses the art of Van Gogh, and use Van Gogh's paintings to represent his own life. He also uses it in his artwork. Bennett identify’s with Van Gogh’s metaphysical quest for meaning and identity. Outsider is a montage of Van Gogh’s Vincent’s Bedroom in Arles, 1888 and Starry Night, 1889.