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

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, mrnu~ illmrn ~[(]ITarnum~~[u]amu Visitor 50,000 tl1is week THE 60,000th visitor Is ex– pected this week at the Queensland Art Oallery's Thyssen-Bornemlsza exhib– ition, "A Century of Modern Masters". Ill The Thyssen-Bornemi~zo Collection More than 46,500 people have al– ready viewed the S20 million collec– Uon from A1nerlca a nd Europe. Tho 50,00<,rn visitor ts expected late t.omorro\\', Of early Friday. The vl ,«ir \\'ill be given a lavishly color illustrated volume or "A History or Art", a collection or slides from the 108 pain tin gs In the exhibition. reproductions or t he ma– st.er work, and an exhibition cuta– locue. The glfls will be preaenled by gal• lery director Mr R. Mellish. High school students from Cairns, Atherton. Proserplne and the Rock– hampton Girls' Grammar ..School will fly to Brisbane on Satutday to view the exhibition. , A gallery official said: "L1n11Uage . atudents have found the tapes of exhibition commentary In fh• lan– guages stimulating." Many people time their visit to coincide with the guided tours at 4 11111111111111111111111111111 The art .of ·American Cnrsmnn (born 10441 defies clas.,lllcatlon, al• though he ha,; at limes been called II photo-realist, a non-realist and even an tmnreaslonl6t. Wttat CaT• sman doe.,. ,n fact, Is record the r,.st d1•nppearlng Images of nature nnd architecture that exist. !,Ike a Jour– nalist he records, as In "Cheek •ood Vision•," a cool forest glade. ca,sman's colors are vibrant and Isolated one from the other by strong black areas which gll'e the work a Jewel-like brilliance and em– phaala, 1976 In America, P&UJ Heant een- • I o t ·e d or & r m e d rob– bery , • , Richard M, Nl1on dl1• barred rrom law practice In New York , , • Jimmy Carter narrowly defeats Gerald Ford ror US presi– dent . , , hr&ell commandos raid Enlebbe Airport In llranda and ,_ 103 hU&ciled hoslJIJCI • , • Sir Dou11&1 Nicholls, an &horlJlnal, &P• ~nled Oo\'Ol'llor of South Austra- p.m. on Thursdays and Tuesda)•a. A gallery education officer ac– companies each group. The Tlly.ssen-Bornemlsza collec– tion exhibit Ion is sponsored by The Courier-Mall and BTQ Cham.et 7. Admission charge • to cover COOltl arc $2 for adults and SI for chll– d~en, students and pensioners. The Old Master tour the US, p&II 5. 11111111111111111111111111111 Hockney born In Bradford, Eng– land, in 1937, had his first academic t raining at Bradford College In the 1950s. Later at the Royal College of Art In London, he experimented with a ,·arlety of atyles, e,·entually arriving at an English "pop style of purposely naive designs tn & aim• plllied realistic style." His 1wlnts, drawln1~ and paint• ings provide a record of his travels and nct;uaJntances through Egypt, Europe and kmerlca. In this work he Is quoting some lines from a poem written by Michelan1elo to commemorate a young uslstant who had died. IN America, the Cult&n mlulle crisis .. . Arrlnl of Pop Art In New York, with one man shows bi JJcb• tensteln, Warhol, and Sepl , . , Warhol'• Campbell'• Soup l:&n1 are uhlhlted for the flnt time ... Gen- 0\'& dbi&rm&ment confen,nce la bold under Khrushche••• promptlns .• , Adolf Eichmann hanrcd In Israel ... Marlh'n Monroe dies from o,-eN10111 or sleepln,t pllla. Bulwer lll&nd oil terminal opena. MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1980 _ ~mu~. ltlww uRJu~rnumo . by IAN McARTHUR THE Thyssen-Bornemiszo Col– lection's Century ot Modern Masters exhibition ot the Queensland Art Gallery is proving popular with school groups. Amon~ ,·1suors h•vc been a srou11 or 78 students from Atherton, Cnims Rnd TrlnlLY Buy HIHh schools and II students from Rock– l1a1111)lon Glrls Grammar School. FOr most. It. was the first. time t.hey lrnd seen work or srenL artists thr)· had re•d sbout In books. For Jeff Canuto. of Trlnltl' Bny. II, wss the chance or a llfeblmc. "I like the lute elghtecnlh centur)' palnl,inss hecnuse they arc more ex– pressive of the PRilllcr·s Idea,;," he snld. ~lost or the studenls •lrcndr knew whnt to expect from the edu– cULlon kits nrnilnble from the ~nl– lcry for SB.BO . lncl11<llng posln~c. The klls Include slides nn!I folders for dlspliii·. Students and teachers ,·l~llln~ IIJP exhibition •creed U1e exhibition WAS n grco.L experience. ll Is sponsored in Queensland by The Couner-Mall and BTQ Cilllll· nel 7 nnd continues until March :m. Act1·nnce bookings for schoo group lours of 1hc exhibition can be made through the gallery's cclu,·• · 110n ortlcer. l\ls Caroline Lnunllz– Schurcr. " :\tn1w art. studcnls -n nntcd to .~ec 1 he r,:1libillon becn.u c it, rcprc'lctn– cd the rnost. Jmr .)rtant sun·cy of nlnCLC'Clllh 1rnd twcntloth century Rn.'' she s• lrl.