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

. Pre-Raphaeiite Art ogiaow Exhibition or Pre-Raphaelite Art, arranged lis Awardlian Stale (ineties, is it %Amble attempt to ShoW people in lite einintry a period in art history. (>nr 11111)15 tind this ell- draV11111' teen he lolloieil tip by other exhibitions 01 pa.a. periods. The short-livecl Pre- Rapliaelltat III0V1.11111.111 ,W1114.11 1(1111 IIS 14111111,.11,1 I In IIII' (.;1.1 I PIO, Ille Iwitntiou ul old carrivti by a handful of masters and faithful di reel young artists. was horn in observation of nature. a time of revolution:11y Their 'cork is lull of ron- ch:niges in 1N'estern tradictions. 111111. N..vcrtheles.s, each 01 them poiduced some works 01 in - A ITV(/II tintoe beauty and 1111(11.1- II, loo, was a revolt, a table poetry, they made an ht - revolt of the spirit Mit only portent contribution toot against the dreary +lead- tiitlitthittnetta by the genius elitism of the official art ui Moms and HOSKil" in of Mid -nineteenth century saving the HUI,. ol mural England, hut against painting. tapestiv and growing nieehanIsation stained glass Lunt the de - and Materialism, cline into which they bud flowerer. the Pre-Raph- fallen, by reviving the pun- aelite painters did not create ride of decorative Rat- a new; style in art. Theirs was not R leap into the fut- ure, but a pause, a stock taking of the past and its moral and artistic values. 'they were torn between the real and the imagined, ART REVIEW by Dr. Gertrude LANGER HMS, The large tapestry "'the Adoration of the Maar is R point in case. Horne -.tines, In Polite of elose borrowings (ruin Many sources (Botticeill, Gallery until September 19. Ilielielangelo, and oliteisl, 110', a gilled designer :and the delicate. luminous (111- °111's of his (Ills have beaul r. Whitt, we IIIId It (III :ate Sll111.11114 ,111IiI111111:1111 S. we call enjoy u,lue Ot 111:1 (1114W - 1111, It I. Ihr (11110111:4N. 1(111' - ally. While Millie V.1.111,, VII. III Ile 101111(1 1/V111,1 511111'; III III. 111111011111 - 1,111,1 of England' is viva' and a small pencil poi !tali is of Itolheni-like plait y and ,en - silt' !Iv 11:islet.i)iece xtitlau drawing "The Lady of Shallot t" Is another III 11,14'11)11ye. Some design, of Intrin- sic beauty for wall papers and textile, by the great reformer of crafts %%Allan' Morris are also included, Tho Exhibition will he open RI the Queensland Art Eat, 190' 'Phone: MU 6133 Aust. Press Cuttings Agency Melbourne, Victoria From "TELEGRAPH" Brisbane, O. Est. 1904 Art on display An exhibition of sel- ected paintings entered for the IL C. Richards Memorial Price will lie opened at the Queens- land Art Gallery on Thursday night. The president of the trustees of the Queens- land Ait Gallery, Sir Roslyn Philp. will oven the exhibition officially at 8 um. 'Phone: MU 5133 Ausf. Press Cuttings Agency Melbourne, Victoria From "COURIER MAIL" Brisbane, Q. Art winner for gallery QUEENSLAND Art. Gallery trustees will spend almost £1000 on the purchase of works of art. The trustee's will pay 380 guineas for Margo Lewers' "Bushfire," which won this year's £250 II. C. Richards Memorial competition, judged by Lloyd Rees. The gallery Is also buy- ing another picture from this competition, for 200 guineas. This is Ray Crooke's "Sunrise, Albion Hotel, Norman - ton." Three Rembrandt etchings, for £375, are being bought from the collection of the late Sir Lionel Lindsay. Two exhibitions of in- terest will he held M the gallery early in 1962. They arc an exhibition In January of modern Japanese woodcuts, and an exhibition In Febru- ary of the early works of now-famous Australian artists such cc Nolan, Boyd, Percival, and Tucker. Exhibition PERTH. - Sydney Nolan, Australia's greatest painter overseas, arrived in Perth yester- day on his first trip home in five ,years, to attend a month -long exhibition of his paintings, opening on Monday In a Perth gal- lery. Nolan said yesterday he would go to the east- ern States la appear at other exhibitions. II.C. RICIIARDs CoMPLTITION Est. 1904 'Phone: MU 5133 AUSTRALIAN PRESS CUTTINGS Melbourne, Victoria From "COURIER MAIL" Brisbane, Qld. .14., .162 Gallery to be closed The Q eeeee lend Art Gallery will be closed on Thursday endPride' Ntle week. 8 Gallery officials w1:1 be creersInag thpere"12Rigahvihy a collection just shown with a selection from the per- manent collection. The Gallery is preparing for the H. C. Richards Memoriall guCionmegtitEn- tries close on November The competition is for an Australian landscape or seascape painted ht at) medium and is open toell Australian artists. Queeonsi land-bornflees artist Li yt. Will judge the pain Mg, "soon after November Est. 1904 'Phone: MU 5133 Aust. Press Cuttings Agency Melbourne, Victoria From "COURIER MAIL" Brisbane, O. i4.7C. Richards Prize to Margo Lewers COMPARED with last year's H. C. Richards Memorial Prize Exhibition, this year's overall impression is not quite as fine, but, nevertheless, compares more than favourably with those previous to 1961. Why many interstate names have not entered this time is obscure. This is especially so as some impoz tont acquisitions were made by both Gallery and the Gallery Society. However, interstate entries are still gratifying, and the exhibition is well worth a visit, Margo Lewers' "Bush Fire," molded the Prize, is R compelling treatment of a subject which is common in Australian art, Fascination Mrs. Lewers painted the beauty end fascination rather than the tragic after- math. Fusing the vital subject With a vital music of colour 1116 101111 the poetry realties 1,1 the surer,: of the means. There is a hint of Turner ART REVIEW by Dr. Gertrude LANGER in the magnificence of those tents of blazing colour mists, and a sense of space and time in the rhythmic progression across the hori- zontal field which ends with an escape into a void of white light, Frank HodgkInson. In "Spirit of Arnhem Land," creates an articulate nun - objective linage, which car- ries the full force of the magic rind mystetious. Rapotec's "Spring Up North" is another painting certainly not Inferior to the prize winner, Other interesting paint- ings front Sydney are by Hector Gilliland, Judy Cassab Elwyn Lynn, Sheila McDonald. Guy Grey -Smith, D, Orban, Robert Hughes, and Sally Herman. Sibley's "Winter Orchard, Stanthorpc" seems to reflect the conscious choice of a style and technique rather than en inevitable compul- sion oil a deeper level, The reverse shines through Rapotec's painting, Growing fame Hay Crooke's "Sunrise, Albion Hotel, Normanton" justifies his growing reputa- tion, This superbly tranquil, yet disquieting painting transmits spiritual content. After having looked at a number of trite representa- tional pictures and quite a few academic abstracts, it is like coming to an ORSiS, Moriarty, John Aland, Neville Matthews, Thom Pilgrim and Diane Sennett are oilier Queenshulders contrilbiting expressive paintings.