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

• Max Beckmann "Still-life With Yellow Roses" 1937. .THROUGBOIIT his life Mu Beckmann turned to landscape and stlll•lifes as relaxation from the strident tensions so characteristic of his fl&ure com– positions. "Slill-Ufe wllh Yel• low ~" In a vl1or• oua affirmation of life - the r06es are at the helwht of their bloom, the pears at the peak ,or rlpenesa. TIie 8paailll CIVIi twar -pls • .• the Dulle ,f Windsor -rrle• Mn Wallis 81ID"'°D ID t•ra • ce, •• ,loll • Slelabeell wrllea MOf Mice and Men",., .IIIPIID lle1ln1 war la cea41uer Cblna •• • flnl traffic ll1hh ID• atalled In llrltbaae. ,.~, , Beckntann < IIRt· ur,o , creates a leelinr of richness and abun• dance in hl.s palntln1 not unlike that In Matisse·• sllll•llfes of the mld·30s. 1946 Atomic bumb teol a\ lllklnl atoll ... Moon first hit by radar .. . United Nation • choooe New York u Ila per• manenl headquartera . . . Tbe Nurembers trials aententt! Rlbllen• lrop and Goer1D1 to dtatb. He<i• to Ille Im• ,n • ona1ent • . . Ger– trude !Stein die. In t 'rance. Guide to masters Gl'IU l-:U tours of the Queensland Arl <..:ullcry's record - breakin~ Thyssi:n– Burnumisza exhihilion of "Century ,,f Modern l>lasters" are a1·ailable u11 Thursdar and Tuesday afternoons. The 1,our11, u 4 II.Ill.. were 1111 roduccd last week Mild h&\'e pro\'ed popular •·nh a,~ loin,. The Qallery's depu1y director. lllr rt. Kernwn. 11iu the tours were i.n e~crllcm oppon u1:11 y lo oce the rlO mllholl uh1b11ton. Patntin&tt by European and Amrrican ma.-;~ lera are tn Lhe •~hlb1llun, wlucb co111111u1·> • • 1he gallery until lllnrch 30. Already, almu, L 40,000 1ieople ha\'e seen 11. 'fbe exhlbtllon lS bell11 l(IOOM)red by '!'he Courier-Mall and BTQ Channel 7. The Queensland Art O•llery I• on the 111th floor. MlM butldlni:, Ann Stteel. IL opens 1,0111 10 a.111. t.o 5 p.111. Monday to Saturday, exlend– lng to 9 p.111. Friday and from noon to s p.m. Sund&)', Admls.sion cha rBe• Lo co,·•r costs are ~~ for adults, and $1 for children, •Ludents and pensioners. --~- ),;i.. e MILTON AVERY •.. "Homework" 1946. AVERY (1893-1965) used his daughter M11rch a., a subject Jn many paintings. Allhou11h his figures are rttther abstract, A1·er)· achieves spatial dcµth and lhree-d1- m en• Ion a I forms through the subtle placement of one area of color •B•lnst 1n- 01her. Avery was regarded ,._, a master or color harmonies, and ..-as perceived as a m • Jor link bet..-een the color palnt1n1s and coll a«•• of ~allsse and the co Io r-fleld palnllnis 9f. Mark Rothko and Aoolph Oolllleb. mrnu~ m~rn ~moomrrm~RJ[li]UWTI weeks left The countdown to the end ol Brisbane• most popular err ex• h1b,t1on, "The Cenl– u,y of Modern Mos• 1ers", 01 rhe Queen!,;• lond Art Golle,y, ho begun. The $20 milUon cx– l1lbiUon or pnlntlngs from the Thysscn– Bornemlszn collectlou, re n Lu rt n g muster work,> from Europe and America. will run a llie gu.llory until Mar h 30: 'I' h c b1sgeot 81 L crowds c\'cr attracted to rut exhibition 111 B r 15 b n n c hnvo 111- speclcd the more lhan JOO works In the col– lcctJon on loun to the Queensland Art Cal– lery, 'l'I e cxblblllon Is being spo1150rcd In Brl.sbnne by 'l'he Co11- rler-Mall lllld B'lt'Q Channel 7. '111e Queen•lRnd Art Oallcry ls on the 11fth floor, MIM building, Ann Slrcct. An Apollo ll)laee– erart links In •paee wUh a Sovlcl Soyuz ln D Jolnl te•I project. Keal Shtle defend• ants acqullled • • • llfargaret Thatcher elected leader of the Conservath·e Party In Great Britain • • • OrEC nations orrcr to nei;ollato oil prices ••• In Au, tralla, Labor Governmenl led by l\lr. \Vhltlam A4!lle<l by the Governor-Gen– eral (Sir John Kerr) • • • lllalcolm Fra..r leads Liberals to vie• tor y when Federal election• held. The Thy11en-Bornemiaza Collection e ANDRE DERAIN " Old Waterloo Bridge" 1905-6 'F'rcnch painter Dern1J1 t 1880· 1054) wcn lo London in 1905 and 1006 at lhe request of the dealer Vollard. "'ho wished him to point the Thames - rememberlni; the success . louot's views or London had had a low years carUer. "Old ,\Vutcrloo Bridge" irt1•e, a co11111oslte view of the ri,·er Thames nnd' R prolile o! J'a.rlla· ment with all o! Its towera in– undated by a blaze of ,etunr aun. Derah1 concentra~ here, M 11 true of most of his London paint– ings. on cool color, whll:h lllve the work an airy a1m;isphere. 1 The first nickelodeon opened In America in 905 Pittsburgh, showing the Australian film "The Great Train Robbery" ••• "Bloody Sunday" caused by the abortive workers' revolution in St. Petersburg leads to the mutiny on the battleship Potemkin ..• Gertrude Stein befriends' both Picasso and Motisse . • . Einstein discovers the theory of relativity • Gympie proclaimed o ·city. e LOWELL NESBITT "Two New York Bridges" 1975 The work or American Lowell Nesbitt (born 1933) hns been In– fluenced by tralnlng ln London In •talned glass and etching. Since the early 1960s, Ncsbltt has abandoned his early abstract style, preferring instead to develop figurative Images Into a lorm or photo-realism. · His "Two New York .Brldi:es" depicts the Manhattan '!nd Brooklyn Brid1191 In late &!ter– noon. The direct thrust of the bridges eontrasta with the delicacy of the water, and the New York and New Jersey skylines.