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Abstraction

SYNERGY: Tony Tuckson – drawing into painting

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05 May 2023
Untitled (Brown and Grey), 1973, TP 200 (courtesy of the Tuckson Estate and Rogue Pop-up Gallery, Sydney)
I bump into two friends at the opening of SYNERGY and we peer into Tony Tuckson’s works, finding allegiances with and hints of other artists: the red, black, and white palette of Philip Guston; Ian Fairweather’s shallow space and densely patterned linework hovering between figuration and abstraction; Cy Twombly’s intricate, repetitive gestures; the torn edge of a calligraphic Robert Motherwell brushstroke in fluid black paint. ... (read more)

Paths to Abstraction 1867–1917 edited by Terence Maloon

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November 2010, no. 326
Daniel Thomas reviews 'Paths to Abstraction 1867–1917' edited by Terence Maloon

The Mondrians in Paths to Abstraction 1867–1917, Terence Maloon’s beautiful, refined exhibition held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from June to September this year, and the Gauguins in Ron Radford’s more spectacular Masterpieces from Paris that closed at the National Gallery in April, were drawcards. We last saw a group of Mondrians in 1961; Gauguin had never been properly seen in Australia. The exhibitions and the related books together amounted to a superb and very up-to-date two-part lesson in the history of modernism.

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