The movie 'Sirens' implies that Lindsay was a womaniser... he wasn't. He married twice and stayed married to second wife Rose for 60 years. Rather than being an innovative artist ... he was a reactionary in many ways. Although he influenced certain artists like Syd Long - he actually had more influence on POETRY and was not a fan of 'modern' art.
In his poem ‘The Sad fate of Gamboge Bluegum’ Lindsay made fun of the prudes and himself his paintings were attacked by women who poked holes in the canvases with their umbrellas. Koala Bluegum paints naked Koalas. He said, 'I am sick of these clothes we wear, I will paint the bear as her should be - bare!' .... The socially pure, when they heard what he swore, They came and they peered through a crack in the door .... And, in order to show where his sin did lurk, The poked umbrellas through Bluegum's work.
