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

...Flocking to see the : t ::BRISBANE has responded •enthusiastically to the ex– ,. ~tended Sunday viewing hours at the Queensland At't Gal– lery for the Thyssen - Bomemisza "Century of )fodern Masters" exhibition. Sunday, during the exhlb11 ton P"– r lod. On Sundny almost 400 people saw the exhibition beLween noon nnd 2 p.rn . and a !urlher 1020 saw i~ after 2 p.m. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Ute gallery for the Col,in blan gold display In U1e firsL 12 d~) S. Becawe '1 demand. the pllery Will open from noon to 5 p.m. on The exhlblUon is the mosL popu– lar ohown in the Queensland Art Gallery. More than JOO paintings In the collecUon have been seen In Brisbane by 19,288 people - abouL 2000 more Lh • n the attendance a t 'l'he S20 mllllon col e<'Lton will conLlnue on display until March 30. 'I'he e.shib1tlon Is being ,pon– r;ol'C(j In B1i sbane by The Courier– Mall and BTQ Channel 7. I • , Cold, hard illumino– ' tion were tho hallmark elf the pointing s'l'yle of American Edward Hopper 0882-1967), His paintings por• frayed evcrydoy life In Amorico with pothos. The bleak outlook and sense ...., of Isolation which " , ·emerged from his work In NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV the 1920s is demon– st,gted in this famous painting. The reality of the pointing Is intensified by the emphasis an light. 1958 Alaska beco11os America's 49th State . . . Tho Guggenhelcn Museum, designed by Fronk Lloyd Wrigh1, cpens . . . America launche~ first o r11hc1al sa1elli1e ... In Russia , Nikita KhrushchcY sue• ceeds Bulganin a s choir • man ot U.S.S.R. counc.11 of minl~ters . . . Pope John XXII I succeeds Plus XII ... Boris Pas– ternak writes Dr ZhiYcigo . . In Australia, first nuclear reactor at Luco::. Heights opens . . . Aus- 1rall011 commercial TV licences announced. T.S. ELIOT 1921 Pochode typiHes tho monumcn10lity o n d ~implicily of Stuart Davis' late pointing style. In this work, t h e Amencon (1894-1 964 ) pieced his emphasis on a lorge bold composition as the Yisual equivalent of the sights ond sounds of the American cily - the modern 1henic par excellence for Davis. Pochode, French for rough sketch, includes the words ond symbols X. any, elirc, news, and cot. Even Davis' ~19na• lure i!. 111corpora red ,nto the tompo,irion along the green border. * In America, Soct C'I and Vonzcnl n,c con lctcd of rtiurder ... T.S. Eliot wr11es The Waste Land .. . D.H. Lawrence wnle3 Worncn in Lovt:! ... In Austrollo, first· regular 0 1r :,ervicc begun, flown by WeH Austre• lion Airwovs . .. In Queen51ond, 75 killed In the Motint Mulligan mine disaster. The gallery, on the !i!lh !loor, MIM bulldlnir.•~nn Strce~, opens from JO a.m. to p,m. Monday to Saturctar, ext nd lnf o 9 p.m. Frl– duy, and Crom noon to 5 p,m. Sun– day. Adn slon ~.hu:r;es to co\'cr costs, arc S3 tur adult, , and $1 ror child1-en, atudenw and penaloners. \