Daniel Thomas : Newspaper writings

tri "TELEGRAPH" Sydney, N.S.W. The Week in rt by Daniel Thomas MUG LAIR'S PICNIC (above) by Colin binary, at Farmers, is not aimed at the decorating market. It is a specimen of the "imitation realism" which hit Australia this year (eyed, - body's doing it in America and Europe). Plastic flowers, clothes, words and magazine cut-outs are incorporated, from our environment, into a work of art which aims to ex- press a totality of experience. LEFT: Chories Reddington's ShosIwn Celebrotion. The Most interesting artist to ap- pear in Adelaide for years, Reddington came from Chicago four years ago. This huge pointing, a modern figure sub- ject, hos a typical American amplitude and vigor, and at the sow time great sweetness in its paint and color. RIGHT: The pinkest possible Watermelon, by Fred Jessup; it has the MM. color repeated through the background. A happy picture whose whole aim is to provide pleasure in a domestic interior. AF winner: Leonard Hesstng s Where the hduel 'lions Red, one of his Rubinstein Scholarship entries. The ascending liftout form of ter, has o !.uptlestion of red-brown wings. THE week's three 11 C w exhibitions were better th.in hap- pens in most weeks. At the Macquarie Gallery Roland Wakelin, a pioneer of post-impreaslontsm since World War I, allowed small landscapes And still Ides done with the ems, ono strength of a Wet tow ex- perience. The Dominion Gallery had by for its beat exhi- bition since It opened. Three orttsts. 011ey. Stra- chats and Jessup. belong to a middle-geriersition which. In the '40s, had to bring Australian pointing back again to the main- stream of French art. They have lived hi France. and tht art of 011ey and Jessup has the c rti tsmansh sophistica- tion and ehorm of [Int. French furniture SU:it-min has more ro- MOM iC poetry. The Contemporary Art Society's exhibtlion. of Farmers is its beat for ninny years. no doubt be- cause of the new MOO Hay H. Tatty prim. For once Adelaide and Melbourne have sent some of their good pictures, too. What's an ? TODAY AND NEXT WEEK Art Gallen, of N.S.W.: Speelal exhibitions-Pre- Rnphaclite Art 'final day): Etchings by European Insisters. CIE,Va tr Plensinu. ALI. NEXT WEEK Farmers: C A F. Amnia/ Exhibition: The Ray H. Tolls PI tat Dominion: (Vey. Jessup. Strachan Mammal,: Rolann Wakein. Clone: Voss Smith Ma - Widen Rouse: Who was Van Gogh? PlicitogrisPhk and reproductions Kaman: Andrew Sibley. OPENING TUESDAY Betty O'Neill's Hungry Horne 'Windsor and EWA- beth Paddington Gratin Exhibition. 5.30. OPENING THURSDAY Anthony Borden's: Kii- silya Kawakami, tradition- al Japanese painUngn. OPENING WEDNESDAY Barry Stern: Brian Dun- s lop. David Jones: Ten ruin- NIS and untie/ MONDAY, PICASSO FILM "le kip.stere Plensao," Union Then I re, 0 p.m. BOOKED OUT.