澳大利亚象一块巨大的海绵漂浮在南太平洋上 ,它的当代艺术就象它的地理状况一样 ,呈现出吸收多种文化来源与多元并存的面貌 ,具有西方／非西方的属性。现任悉尼新南威尔士大学美术学院院长的伊恩·霍华德作为一位资深的教授画家 ,他的艺术显示了一种对应／修正西方潮流的姿态 Like a giant sponge floating in the South Pacific, Australia’s contemporary art, like its own geography, has the appearance of absorbing multiple cultural sources and pluralistic coexistence with Western / non-Western attributes. Ian Howard, now Dean of the School of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, is a veteran professor and painter whose art shows a gesture of correspondence / revision of the Western trend