Early Morning Colour
"My only concern is putting the right shapes in the right colours in the right places. It is always the geometry." - Jeffrey Smart.
I've always been fascinated by the work of Australian artist Jeffrey Smart (1921-2013). www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/artists/smart-jeffrey/
Smart lived most of the latter part of his life in Italy, but his mature work identified the shapes and colours of industrial landscapes wherever they be in the world. Industrialism is a truly global phenomenon.
Whenever these sorts of scenes present themselves, I always think of (and miss) Jeffrey Smart. It seems to me he continued the surrealism of the early Giorgio de Chirico, and extended it into the realms of hyperrealism and Modernist abstraction.
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Early Morning Colour
"My only concern is putting the right shapes in the right colours in the right places. It is always the geometry." - Jeffrey Smart.
I've always been fascinated by the work of Australian artist Jeffrey Smart (1921-2013). www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/artists/smart-jeffrey/
Smart lived most of the latter part of his life in Italy, but his mature work identified the shapes and colours of industrial landscapes wherever they be in the world. Industrialism is a truly global phenomenon.
Whenever these sorts of scenes present themselves, I always think of (and miss) Jeffrey Smart. It seems to me he continued the surrealism of the early Giorgio de Chirico, and extended it into the realms of hyperrealism and Modernist abstraction.
www.menziesartbrands.com/blog-post/jeffrey-smart-waiting-...