Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 8 : Pressclippings, 1977-1981

MASTERS' WORKS CONVEY VITALITY A personal visit to the "America and Europe: A Century of Modern Masters" exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery, M.I.M. Building, Ann Street, Brisbane, yields specific advantoges for the viewer . Much informarion may, of course, be gained from catalogues, photographs and wrillen reviews, bur when works, themselves, arc examined at close range, 1hc very essence of the artisl's feelings and lechnical abiliry is more directly conveyed. Thus these painiings transmit an immediacy, a viialhy, to the naked eye. The actual scale of a work al o relates 10 the degree or its success. Pictun.•d 011 1h is page is Kurr Schwittcr· ~ "Bild Auf 8 Sciten," 1920. 11 is rinl v when actually viewing this abs1raction 1ha1 one is aware 1ha1 the ccn- 1ral light-coloured righ1-angled form which 1ravcrses the pic1urc area is, in fac1, collage (in 1his case, 1hrce-ply board) thus the subtleness of surface tcx1urc and edge add greater dimcn ion 10 rhis work than 1he viewer in– itially an1icipa1es. 11 is i:,1ercs1ing, also , 10 sec 1h,· "The Cock 1929" by Marc Chagall . Lyrical. drea m-like romunticism here ii; evident rrorn a photograph, but varicty of paim tcxturl': isa revela tion only availal,lc lO rhc personal viewer. Ycl\O\~ brush•strokcs along the figure·~ bac~ :u c of thidish impasto, whereas smoo1h 1hin p:unt cover · 1110s101hcr area!\ of the picture. Tiny rm:as of fine-Iin~ chevron c.h.'coration rcflcc11hc delicacy nrChagall 's technical mcthocl . Thb show, which Hll'ludes 108 pa in1ing", b mor<.· 3 rcpre enrnt ion c f 1hc personal IUstc of lhc cn1huslns1ic collcc1ors, 1hc Baron Thyssen-Borncmisza . 1han a com– plclc historical survl'Y of the year~ cunci.:rncd , bu1 French Impressionism, German Ex pressionism, ubism, Surrealism and 1\ hstra~1 ion . in bo1h Europe und .S.J\. , mah~ the 1:,hihition nc of the most irnpor– Hllll 10 be staged at the Qucc.•nsland Art 1nllcry in rcccnl \'cars. 1920 ·ABSTRACTION