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Jeffrey Smart - the White Hat guideJeffrey Smart
Artist
1921 -We are currently preparing a short profile. Please return again soon, or email us if you would like to be notified when this entry is complete. Jeffrey Smart is now resident in Italy but regards himself as Australian.
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Jeffrey
Smart's Container Train in Landscape
was commissioned in 1983 to hang in the foyer of the Fairfax Theatre of
the Melbourne Arts
Centre. The painting comes into view at the top of the entrance
stairs, and by cunning use of forced perspective the train appears to
remain at the same distance as the viewer descends the stairs. It is
painted on five panels. As a consummate craftsman, Smart integrates the
painting with the colours and columns of the foyer, and as a consummate
artist uses numbers of visual devices to extract beauty form a seemingly
unpromising subject.
Those who know the painting well may notice that the
above image (from the website of the organisation selling the print) is
in fact a mirror image of the original. Never fear - if you buy the
print it is the right way round. |
Jeffrey Smart's Cahill Expressway is currently hanging in the NGVA, Melbourne.
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TOURISM NEWS
Qantas In Flight Magazine chooses
White Hat
Cemetery Tour as its featured Australian tour for May
There are many fine historical tours
throughout Australia including cemetery tours. From these, the
prestigious Qantas In Flight Magazine has chosen the White Hat Tour
of Melbourne Cemetery as its featured Australian tour for the May
2007 edition. This tour was also featured by ABC radio on 24 May and
will feature in a documentary series on Burke and Wills to be shown
on European television in 2008. The tour has been operating for many years and has won
praise from a wide range of sources. This is not a dry and stuffy
tour but in keeping with all White Hat offerings it is Informed,
Intelligent, Independent (and occasionally) Irreverent. You can find
details of the tour at White
Hat Tour of Melbourne Cemetery and view the article at
Qantas In Flight Magazine. |
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