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

A social art Angela McLeod ( ~,wnl. s'.u jo,nt fr m tho E'l... ::ws Art Sch JOI, w !:i i.J 1 no1, " :... ,1 a Queens- :: • l~n Art Gallory prevl13V t v.ur : .. ' , ..... ')~rr. 1n c:ul;J- :- : tor Ernst Bari eh and ~ US:")I( n ~.;ulptr:r;~ Ka~hc • • Kollwltz. i Ascot artist Yvonn~ Krc!u1: 10 Is plct rod - (balow) with anot11cr ,,f 801 we ·s 11~rf:s. , Boggnr Woman. ~ Art :utor Paul Grllfln nd h'·; stuclo.nts Stewart : Free, Maureen Olacl<, Vvvlor. Ballll,!, Helen Murray,. • Pat Tolchor, Ros Conoly, W lt<Jr Gr eh an Rupert ; Single ,nere among t11osn r•~r-i1nt . thers Included Dr ' ortrudG L nger, v1ce-proc1- • , ant of tM gall~ry socio•,, ,lu y Hurt, n mo.mbcr t;f : the VL; :ii Arts Board, Pat M Ill k, onJ lhn gallery S , acting director, Russell Korrison The ~unda,y M il r,:arch 26th , 1 7 TI-IE ARTS Red letter in 'arts OE\ 'OTf:1-::-i nf tlu• :,rb in two fields hacl a rccl-lctlcr day du ri ng lh <• \\'<'t•k . 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'111crc cnu IJ<' no cloulJt– ln~ llic frrod1rns l11tc11t of Uarlach's ··The Avc- 11i;cr'' nur the ascf'tlclsm or ··~Joscs 1he Ln w~lvcr." So 111 c of Koll witz's piccr., nru 111l11lnturcs, Slllttll (;'l'OIIP~ t.lmt convey as nnu:11 Intensity or fccll111:: ns do L11c l11rcer indivld tiHI flgur s - "Manehlntlon" us n 111r1,,;– tcrly cxrun1>lc. Her rugged humanl.sm Is stro111J and st.r1k111g; Do.rlnch worl:cd 111 a Jl,)Orc cxpre ~ionlst. but none Urn less rorccrul sty Ir ; between them, they here mulcc up nu cxhihiUon lo c11t.hrul. It Is, too. an cxhlblLlon Joni; to l>e rcnwml>ercU not only for 1 he skill or lhc work lrnL possibly more £or the ronuncnt it hns lo mnkc on humnn– ity nrnl h..:; val 1cs.