Jeffrey Smart: Master of Stillness
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Author/s: Barry Pearce
Published: 2015
Dimensions: 290mm x 260mm
Pages: 152
Description
Master of Stillness illuminates the vision of the most celebrated of Australian expatriate artists, from his beginnings in Adelaide until his last major composition painted in Italy, where he lived for five decades until his death in 2013.
Adelaide, where Jeffrey Smart was born in 1921, was where his essential evolution as an artist took shape. His early fascination for its grid-like urban landscape was a perfect basis for an ongoing celebration of the phenomena of highways, traffic signs, trucks, transmitters and brutish modular architecture in post-war Europe; aspects of the modern world others found ugly but which he declared beautiful.
Jeffrey Smart's vision curiously searches for an elusive stillness in the midst of industrial change, and this can be seen and appreciated here with a selection of many of his most important masterpieces. He searches for an elusive stillness in the midst of industrial change, and this can be seen and appreciated here in many of his most important works.
One of Australia's most celebrated artists, and an essential book on his work.

