jeffrey smart ist gestorben

Der 1921 in Adelaide geborene australische Kunstmaler Jeffrey Smart (Bild) ist am 20. Juni 2013 in Montevarchi in der italienischen Toskana gestorben.

Foto: http://www.obitree.com/Jeffrey.Smart

Er malte Autobahnen, Busparkplätze und beunruhigend menschenleere urbane Landschaften: Jeffrey Smart. Nun ist Australiens bekanntester Maler im Alter von 91 Jahren gestorben.

http://www.derbund.ch/kultur/kunst/Der-australische-Maler-Jeffrey-Smart-ist-tot/story/29588748

Bon viveur of Australian art, who has died aged 91, showed us loneliness and the grandeur of the modern freeway overpass

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/21/jeffrey-smart-surrealist-visionary

Bilder:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/australia-culture-blog/gallery/2013/jun/21/jeffrey-smart-art-in-pictures

Though he lived more than half his life in Italy, Jeffrey Smart was regarded as one of Australia’s greatest artists. Drawn to urban landscapes as a child, he later told The Sydney Morning Herald that by his early 20s he knew he had «painted my last billabong scene», preferring «urban life, factories, trucks and vacant city lots».

http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/artist-transformed-symbols-of-modernity-20130621-2on1p.html#ixzz2WxACNSRr

Smart’s final painting, of a labyrinth, was finished in 2011 and has not yet been sold. It is one of very few fresh artworks available. The artist was meticulous about only releasing paintings he was pleased with.

Smart’s most famous painting, depicting a one-armed man standing beside Sydney’s Cahill Expressway, is not on display at Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria because of gallery repairs, but a less famous work, Rooftops, is in the Ian Potter Centre.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/smart-a-force-of-nature-with-wit-warmth-and-gift-for-friendship/story-e6frg8n6-1226667823891

Mehr:

http://www.obitree.com/Jeffrey.Smart

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Smart

http://www.australiangalleries.com.au/artists/9-artists/164-jeffreysmart

ABC «Talking Heads» interview

Sue Smith interview