It
seems for the art lover that these days you have to travel all over Australia
to see the blockbuster that you’ll never forget. This winter it’s to Melbourne
for the show from Paris – Monet’s Garden,
up to Brisbane for the Spanish
masterpieces from the Prado in Madrid or to the National Gallery in
Canberra for the much hyped and very popular Turner from the Tate. So to
be honest it was a real surprise that on a whim I took a visit to the Art
Gallery of NSW, one of my most favourite places in all of Sydney, and
discovered Sydney Moderns – Art for a New
World.
Over
180 works by Australia’s most iconic artists, exploring the making of a modern
city and representing one of the most distinctive and creative periods in the
history of Australian art, between the first and second world wars. This show
is bursting with colour and the pictures jump off the wall as if to say for the
first time – look at me I’m very Sydney, new, modern, and exciting – and this in
the 1930’s.
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| Grace Cossington Smith, The curve of the bridge 1930 |
