Difficult Pleasure: A Portrait of Brett Whiteley

Clip 3: The beginning of yourself

1 min 3 sec

Taken from the documentary Difficult Pleasure: A Portrait of Brett Whiteley (1989)

Original title classification M – this clip chosen to be PG

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Collection: National Film and Sound Archive
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Curator’s clip description

Australian artist Brett Whiteley is asked how to paint. He advises young artists to buy the materials and just do it.

australian screen