Title

John Brack: Inside and Outside.

Venues

National Gallery Of Australia (1999 – 14 June 1999)

Date

(1999)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (ACT). Paintings, Prints, Drawings

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

John Brack was one of Australia's most outstanding artists. He was born in Melbourne in 1920, and his work first achieved prominence in the 1950s. For over forty years he was at the forefront of Australian art and produced some of our most iconic images. More than any other Australian artist of his generation, Brack was a painter of modern life – its starkness, its shadows and its brooding self-reflection. His work is characterised by a kind of caustic realism and a strong sense of alienation, undercut with dry, sardonic humour. [Gallery media, 1999].