Jeffrey Smart
(Italy, Australia 1921– )
Truck and trailer approaching a city
- Location
- 20th & 21st c Australian art
- Further information
'Truck and trailer approaching a city' presents a frozen moment, in which Jeffrey Smart’s use of space, scale, colour and form evokes a sense of alienation.
'The painting is in two squares. I wanted to see if I could bring off a satisfactory composition which had a line down the centre, dividing it into two equal parts ... This is the first painting in which the apartment houses have that really impersonal quality I see in them ... I have been able to give them the grid look, amazingly similar to the pattern of memory cells in a computer. The sky is painted mainly with raw umber and mauve – with so much red, a neutral area was absolutely necessary.'
Jeffrey Smart, 1999
- Year
- 1973
- Media
- Painting
- Medium
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- 75.0 x 150.4cm stretcher; 90.0 x 164.5 x 8.8cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed l.l. corner, blue and black synthetic polymer paint "JEFFREY SMART". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased under the terms of the Florence Turner Blake Bequest 1980
- Accession number
- 1.1980
- Copyright
- © Jeffrey Smart
