Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 1 : Presscuttings, 1959-1962

allery Show International Exhibition, "Sculpture in Architecture," is now on display at the nal Gallery for four weeks. nigh this is only d in photographs, dss stimulating and it be missed, espec- t by members of the 'es concerned and by csponsible for the of buildings. country. where thy .rt.s rarely find a public buildings, we II take a lead from seing done elsewhere. ;Isplay shows how are not only COM.' d with figural work ..d outside buildings, with the artistic It of a staircase, a balustrade. a ceiling, a gale, and so forth. Apart Jr.,,., the sir of trntlitinnal ninteriniA. new niter ore being Minted, such ns silo minium. moulder, CP111.111, and ',forties. Our new type of architec- ture. mostly only a steel skeleton with curtains of glass, does not offer the same opportunities to sculpture as the solid walls of former periods, or as In Gothicbuildin t mes, when nearly every g stone was also s carved stone. Our new architecture calls RI'ld? tilt their self-const.i.nis and deadly ,..rt Barnett approach. their contri% eel effect! /1,111. en (' their lack of warns st%in, ultieh fulfilment heart of all real cloated Ilnt there are the eNceptions. and irld. .1nd or ow, Is rotor sa ffpllotitS1 Nit .oness the kin, 1<ccentl. Perkins :Ind tau .1 Jaques 11 ,_,l 'fail nilistertris. glItlarts deselop and &Limner Chico I lamilton,t rim, noble, iitrh 151,1 members of the Mode, Quartet. pianist John I.esiS and Percy ilaaild Lets is and Ilrtlh cosec from the ('oast: so nuur,t'ly enough one o Ilte recorded y.tis called na i)eirees Last. 'I 'tree Degrees I I his track is the highlight tit' ire con- new I I' called 'Grand Encounter.' - it labels (irand Encounter it certainly it, Chicago it is the best modern jai/ recur -Istreant, leased so far this year. Perkins' I is hill of the inflections of Lester l' it styles the great hose amtIlasie. the rhythm seen° equally gently pushing amt aka). st% inging. de. den csery track is e% iilem.e of the influ . kith of the presiding genius. John I cuffs, Fibirs IV I !fill ViVOlifl.S 1)001 RI rem" I Palace=' and with a dreadful rystal pc ceiling, has stretched a tern of Iwo beneath the dirty glass and then lit up his big room with textured ',:ens, each individually lit and ar- wed to form odd-shaped. small par - us in which are scattered a few easy mr,,, and with the paintings on tile' ,Is just as you should see them in drmal-sired room. Naturall),. if silo (1, sery closely. the gullets has a 1,vorary appearance. The tented roof, .aniscent of rare papyrus to the oat sisitor. is understandably just calico to Mr Haines; and liana- , he wants Queensland to have some - better but in this question of ,, better' lies a problem. lists. in the main. are poor. Art s. as ever. is born out of struggle is rarel appreciated 13), State or nrir until it has lirst been :wore- nal by ordinary or estra-ordinary site. Surel, then. it is an anachro- 1,1 lo house Art either in halls of lade or in low ceilinged, aseptic. - walled. contemporary mama,. los? Painters intim paint smaller ever beii,re. I tics see their work wing in houses not galleries. For reason. galleries should look like ,,es. and for this reason Brisbane licry is successful. the Sculpture parlour there were tea pieces. and Iran an vas) chair Id studs I:sydein's head ,,i Bernard and his large loon.", -t dhei: oi stamen's, lipure 1, ( ART REVIEW by' DR. GPTRUDE ."ANGER to] si s III Rllulrr,l .11111t. C'utiP., to: - 111111P aril WIT It 4IL Willie a 111.1's r hen a, Ii,ttC rather !hail t scorns t,, unite 500 - ter WW1 the light af future- ot stir .c20 Thix exhibititin ron Minx Jinn r 11,(11111011 nI et per/nri union he. firren the tiro 1111.4. .Inning the work,. 01111 C111111111 1111114 interemt were: A cinema ceiling. a gate In a mausoleum. a hror17.0 bal- ustrade Intl In Italy. A relief -Pegasus" on the Postai Building in Berne, Switzerland. "Hanging Eternal Light,' Interfan h centre , U.S.A., ; "Figures in Theatre," New Vat K. Epstein's beautiful Madonna convent of the Holy Name, London.; and Henry Moore's friezes of obstruct shapes. Till/ of the emitibilr at the "'wig, pitt re in Arrhi rerrore" Exhibiti tttt nl the Nntionnt 4.0liery, Al rioht. Litotein. Madonna (1.11(1111111). (11111 brink. nue of Henry ilrinre'r Iriezer nJ ribstrnet Anne F11111ily 1:1111111, REALISATION of a lifetime's ambition yesterday for Mrs. B. Robertson, of Ipswich, who was one of the first Queens - lenders to see Australia'sonly Van Gogh painting, "Tete d'Homme," valued at £20,000 at the National Gallery. Mrs. Robertson, an ort lover, said, "All my life, I have wanted to see on original Von Gogh." The painting, on loan from the Melbourne Gallery, will be on display for a month. "'fete d'Ilomme" 15111 he on display at Queensland's gallery for one month, from In a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday tin - elusive) and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Vincent van Gogh was born in 185:1 and flied by his own hand in 1898, aged 37. In a fit of insanity he rut off Ills right ear. Ills stork was never appreci- ated In his own slay. Gallery attendants anti watchmen will guard the painting day and night during Its month's display In Brisbane.