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

record Th, SW million art dl, 11lny lrnm the Thys– !i r n-Bornrnd&ia cnllet– tlnn, al the Quecnslanrt Art Gallery, has hroken al1t•nda111·r rrrnrds. )I or r l ha n U,f>llfl prnpl1• ha re seen the e%"– hlbll Ion In its first 10 dny~. '!1100 mnrr than saw thr El Dorndn Columbian ~old display In the same 1wrlntl. Rr11nrl r. !?. Edited by DES PARTRIDGE Hours extended for collection e Thomes Hart Benton " New York, Eorly Twenties" 1920 QL' EIZNSLAND Art. Galler,1• will open fo r an extra two hours 0 11 Sundays because of high public inter est in the Th vssen-Bomemi sza ''Cen– tui.v of Modern l\'iusters" exhibit·ion. T he gnllcry's SundR_v h urs dur• in~ t,he eshtbt tion will be 110011 to 5 Jl.111, T he sullcry·s dcpu t,y director, Mr R. K rnson, sa id last Sunday·.s crowd hnd been "capaci ty", He snltl : "\Ve could not handle nn)' more through t he gallery in U,e t hrrc llours wr were open." AL t11c cl c or 1h e gallcr)' ;·ester– dnr. more thnn 12.000 1 •oplc lrnrl Iii seen the s~o million esh1 b1Lion In 1 hr cighL cloys 1t ltns been wowing, IL ll'111 be on oho\\' lllllll Mn eh 30, Gnllcry hours a re now 10 2-m. to 5 11.m. .~lonclny to Saturday, ,tend– ing to 9 p,111. Friday, and neon to 5 p.m. Sundnys. Tl1c Qur.enslnnd An Oallc::y Is on the fi fth floor or the MIM building In Ann Street. The Eshlbltlon is sponsored in Brisbane by Tiie Cou– rier-Mall and BTQ Channel ':', Admission chnrges to corer cosu arc 52 for ndult,. and SI for ch ll– rtrcn. :;luilcnts 1111d pcnslonel's. Anol hl'r lwo or the mu-,t er paint• e Pablo Ruiz Y Picasso by DES PARTRIDGE mgs from the tshlbitlon are pub– lished here. The gouache Head by Picasso 0881-19731 Is one of a series or pre– liminary studies for hls painting "Nude with Drapery" completed in lll0'1, The paint.Ing Is characterised by hcal'y black contours, which isolate 1he various parts or the body from the background. The Influence or African acul1>– ture on Picas.so's painting Is ob- 1·1011. : The large nose protruding at a aharp Angle from the clonµated ''Heed" 1906-7 concare race \\ 1 ll h Its con\'cx eyes. This lnLroduc:es an clement or fierceness into un otherwise cmoUo• rrnlly detached fncc. Benton 11880-1 975\ ma rked hi.~ retu rn to representational nrt In rnw with his palntin~ "New York, Early Twenties". The Amcrlc•n rnbldl l' criticised the degeneracy or modermsm which he considered "aesthetic drll'ellngs and morblrl self-concerns". This work captures the feeling of iurmoll, movement a nd ei10rgy winch characterised American and American hfc for Benton. The Jooale la the then rnshlonnble Mudlson Squnre. a t the Junction of Broadway, P'ift h J\ l'cnue und 'l'wen– ty-l1fLh StrrcL.