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

EDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1980 illrnTI~ m~rn ~~u~rnuill~~IuJ~rnu Exhibition • 1S near record WITH only five days remain– ing, Queensland's response to the •Thyssen-Borncmlsza art collection, "A Century or Ill The Thyssen-Bornemiszo Collection 'Th • T t1~ Afc.•n - Oornrml:wa r.ollec– t Ion l• , h ilJILiun l ~ ~poni;ored In QueensJ,11111 by The Courier-Mall and BTQ Cl'lll llllel i . Admhoiun 1'11a1'!.:es ,,, ,·o\'P,· ro.-,Lt-, are :! for arlull. . and SI for rhildren, sludents and JJCnslon1•r.s. Tht· Quecnslnnrt Ar~ ,1dleo· 1S 011 lilt! 111th l loor, MIM Modern Masters", seem cert.aln to break attendance records set !01· the exhibition In Perth last year. In Pe1·lj1, "'here the ~20 million colleollon was the prem lerc eshlbi- This early abstract by American Davis U894•19M) Is one of several baaed on labels and wrappers oC commeorclal products, Davia almulates conventional col• larire elements, using them as the Cubist.a had done, to emphasise the actual two-dimensionality or the paint.Ina. The complex overlapping planes, also serve to brmg Images close to the picture surface. Such works serve ns transition between 19th century Alilericnn trompe-l'oell painting, with Its con– c.,·n for llluslonlstlc representation, and Pop art or the 60s. with Its pre– dilection for ba1ial subject matter. lion In ihe new We.t Auatnlln n Art Gallery, 60,000 11eo11le s11w the paintings from Euro11e and Amer– lcu. Bl' larc yesterda)', f,7.000 people had seen the 108 Jllllntlngs In the Queensland Art Gallery. The Brishane rcs11onse I: bctt er 1922 1922 The death of Alexander Graham Bell In America .. Ku-Klux-Klan ls revived In the American South with more than five million mem• bers • • Benito Mussolini maorches on Rome and forms a fascist gov– crnmenl. , . . James Joyce JlUb• fishes Ulysses In Paris ... The Tomb of Tutankhamen dlsco,·ercd at Luxor by Lord Cam-, arro n •. . Henry LA-\\ 1 s on· dies .. . The first al'l'mall serl'lce Is Introduced In Queensland between Charlevllle and Cloncurry. than lhal In Adel• ide, WhL,e lhe esh lbhlon wtts s1u~ed before coming norlh. The public's IRSI \'IOll'ing dn)' will 1,e Sunday. AhOUL 1~00 p,ople a da)' 1111,e \'icwcd rl1c l'Xhil1ltlon in Urisbillw. mnklnc ii 1hr lllWil. pOJmlar 11rt di!-!· play t;lu~cd 111 1hc di)', Kuhn 0887-1949) had worked as a publicity man for a circus In his youth, and returned In the 1920s to this subject, which best sutt,d his temperament. "Chico" painted one year before Kuhn's death In Amer– ica, shows distinct signs or the stress under which the artLst then labored. The clown's expression Is no long– er tired or melancholy, blase or blanl:. but hM a nmnlc quality. The brlil1t plumes and spangles are 11\llldln~. .~1111 Sr rrel. F:shlbilin11 huurs nrt1 IU a .111. u 1 5 p.111. Mond • r to ~uw•,clu~·. t•:"l.l1 rntl n~ tu !I p.111. f•'rlct11~·. n11 Li n oun 10 5 p.m. Sunday, burning eyes trtve a quality of men• ace to thla work. 1948 lo America, tra.Ji.ton Tooted by the Boll Ttltpbo • e C..• chairman of the People'• Repabllc of China •.• Laurence Olivier atan In Hamlet •• . Prince CharlH born •. , In .\ustnlla, the fll'llt Holdea takk the road . , • The 40-hoar 'hell effective lhrou1boat Am• Masters set a city record THI Thyuen - lllorneml111 "Century of Modern MoateN" eahlbltlon ot the Quu111I011d Alt Gallery cloHd _yn.. riloy after o record 64,475 pNple hod 1een It durin9 the HYIII w11k1 It ho1 been In· lri1b0111, The total Is greater than atl(!n• dnnce< at the exhibition In both Adelaide and Perth, The exhibition was •,taged In Ptrlh to commfmorate the opening or tJ,e Art Gallery of Western Australia. ' A total or 1697 people visited the gallery yesterday, The gallery ctoslng time was ex– tended by one hour when queues at the ground Oocr entrance In Ann Street extended around the block lo the Stote Oovernmentlnsurance Of– fice building. "If we hadn't decided Lo close late, there would have been n lot o! dlssnppolnted people," a plle17 spokesman said. The exhibition was made poulble through the generosity of prtvaP.9, r o I I e c t o r . Baron Hens-Heinrich• Thyssen-Dornemlszu. · It was sponsored In Brisbane by The Courier-Mnll and BTQ Chan-· net 7.