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Details
- Other Titles
- Brazil Series No.3
Untitled - Date
- (1971)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- 267.0 x 240.0 cm stretcher; 271.0 x 244.5 x 4.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of the Rudy Komon Memorial Fund 1985
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 2.1985
- Copyright
- © Karen Aspden
- Artist information
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David Aspden
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About
This painting was exhibited at the 1971 Bienal Internacional de São Paulo in Brazil, where David Aspden (and Gunter Christmann) represented Australia. Aspden was awarded a gold medal for his body of work, which became known as the 'Brazil' series. With its grand-scale celebration of joyous colour, this series coincided with Aspden’s growing artistic maturity. A key aspect of this was the freeform jigsaw shape that he introduced in order to explore the relationship between colour and space. For Aspden, painting was as much a process as the creation of an all-encompassing colour environment.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
David Aspden (1971), Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Woollahra, 09 Jun 1971–23 Jun 1971
Ten Australians (1974-6), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Dec 1975–04 Jan 1976
David Aspden: paintings 1971-75 (1976), Monash University Gallery, Clayton, 07 Sep 1976–04 Oct 1976
David Aspden (1979), St John's Cathedral, Brisbane, Brisbane, 21 Sep 1979 -
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Bibliography
Referenced in 13 publications
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Agatha Gothe-Snape, Look, 'The art that made me', pg. 21-23, Sydney, Jan 2018-Feb 2018, 23 (colour illus.).
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Agatha Gothe-Snape, Look, 'The art that made me', Sydney, Jan 2018-Feb 2018, 23 (colour illus.).
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Noel Hutchison, Art and Australia, 'The dynamiting of the picture - David Aspden's paintings', pp. 224-233, Sydney, Dec 1971, 224 (col. illus.), 233. Illustrated and referred to as 'Untitled' 1971.
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Dr Gertrude Langer, The Courier Mail, 'Splendid paintings in St. John's Cathedral', pg. 20, Bowen Hills, 29 Sep 1979, 20.
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Patrick McCaughey., Ten Australians: Europe 1974/1975, France, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, 'The Australian experience', Melbourne, 1975, (illus.). cat.no. 1; titled 'Brazil Series No.3'; Lent by David Aspden, Sydney; dated 1971; not paginated
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Patrick McCaughey, David Aspden paintings 1971-75, Melbourne, 1976.
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John McDonald, The Sydney Morning Herald, 'Harmonious effects', pg. 14-15, Sydney, 13 Aug 2011-14 Aug 2011, 14, 15 (colour illus.). Article appears in 'Spectrum' supplement
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David Ranklin., Sunday Australian, 'A showcase for the world's art', Sydney, 19 Dec 1971. Refers to the winning prize, not specifically this work.
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Robert Raymond, 52 views of Rudy Komon, Sydney, 1999, 164.
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Rudy Komon Art Gallery, David Aspden, Sydney, 1971. cat.no. 3
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Anne Ryan, David Aspden: the colour of music and place, 'David Aspden: the colour of music and place', pg. 6-11, Sydney, 2011, cover (colour illus., detail), 9, 16 (caption), 17 (colour illus.), 81, 88.
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Terry Smith, Australia: XI Bienal de São Paulo 1971: Gunter Christmann, David Aspden, 'David Aspden', n.pag., Canberra, 1971, n.pag. (colour illus.).
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St John's Cathedral, Brisbane, David Aspden, Brisbane, 1971, 3 (illus.). cat.no. 1
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