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

The Thy11en-- • ornemi111a Collection r.. INTEREST i" the Queensland Art Gallery's showing of prized paintings from the Thy~1cn-Bomemisza Collec• tion continuea at a high level, with more thon <4000 people visiting the exhibition be– tween Friday and Sundoy. Fr1day·1 crowd ol 1793 art patron • eompared with the record 1983 who SRW th• exhibition on Friday, F•b· ruary 22. Another 1218 ~pie saw It on Baturday, and 1361 on Sunday, brlnglnr the tot,! attendance to more than 36,000. "The Century ol Modem Maaters" Italian Marini (born 1901l has a rare 1111 tor both palnUn1 and sculpture. Alter an Initial period In which he concentrated primarily on paint– Ing and graphic art, he turned to •culpture In 1930, and lor nearly 20 years worked almost excluslvely In this medium. He returned t.o paint• Ing In 1948-49, "The Spell of the Dancers" 11· a near abstract work In the lormRI aense, and althou1h It allows !or apatlal movement In the Cubist manner. It II really no more than a dramatic modulation of the picture surface. Johfl P. KeuWJ 1963 ... aalllnaled la Dallll by Lee Har– ny Olwald , .• (:antlnal Mnntlnl elec!M aa Pope Paal VI ft the death of Pope John Xll:III , • , SJl•la Plath and Robert Fro•& die . , , Harold WIIHn elected •xhlblUon ltaturea 108 palnttn11 from Europe and America, In• eluding aome ol tht bHt known works by famous artlltl 1uch as Ce· rann•. De111 and Plcu • o. The ,20 mllllon collectlon will 111111tlnue on dllplay unttl Marcb 30. Th• Bria• bane ~xhlbltlon Ill beln, 1pon1011'd by The Oolllllr•IIMI and BTQ ChaMel 7. The gallery, on the fifth noor, MIM building, Ann Str~t, opens from 10 a.m. to 5 p,m. Monday to f ·.urday, rxtendlng to 9 p.m. Frl· dny, and lrom noon to a p.m. Sun• day, Admission chargea, to cover costs, are S2 !or adulta, and 91 for children. • tudenta and pen • lontn. The Impact ol Cubism led to a new approach t.oward realism, which In tum helped to bring about an art which commemortttd the eon– atantly expanding Industrial world. or the French Cublats, only Lerer (1881-1955) devoted hla life t.o the application of cublli form • t.o ma• chine age aymbolll. In "The Bridge," Leger hu N• duced the • culptural quality 'that once marked bill palntlnp, l111tead, he hu aet up a rlsld architectural format ol verticals and horl1011talll to atreaa the two-dlmellllonallty of plcwre plane. ''Time" map1lne 1923 tint publll1ltd In Amerlc:a , • , The flnl birth tontrol ellnlc opena In New Vorll • • • Marla CallH born .• • HIUer'• a&lemplet , coup &h-rled In Manleh , •• t:llea• aleln produtn the ftlm "l'M Baille• ahlp Polemllln" • • , StallleJ a,– "- Auvalia't Prtme IIIIDllta,