Showing posts with label Deco Australia exhibition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Deco Australia exhibition. Show all posts

Saturday, August 26, 2017

ART DECO DOWN UNDER

Art  correspondent  Ponsonby  Willis parachutes in another unusual special  , the  1980 catalogue for the  exhibition   at the National Trust's  S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery , the  cover illustration  , entitled Moths around the  Quay , a 1932  linocut  by Ailsa Lee Brown  depicting Tiger Moth aircraft  flying over  the Sydney Harbour  Bridge  and  Circular  Quay .

It  highlighted  the  impact of the  construction of the  Sydney Harbour Bridge  and  use  of    art deco  design  in architecture , cinemas , the Anzac War  Memorial, Luna Park with  its floating  art deco ballroom , incinerators , the Trocadero  Dance  Hall , photography ,  paintings ,  woodcuts , linocuts , pencil  drawings .

Outlined  was   the  art deco vision for  Sydney in  the  1930s , the buildings  emulating  the skyscrapers of  New York , such as the   Empire State  and  the  Chrysler Building.