Lot 7: TONY CLARK (B. 1954)

SECTIONS FROM CLARK'S MYRIORAMA acrylic and oil on canvas boards (6 panels) 15.5 x 61 cm PROVENANCE Gallery Apicella, Cologne Acquired from the above by the present owner NOTES In a discussion on Clark's Myriorama works four Melbourne artists comment: Geoff Lowe: The landscape paintings were influenced by Claude and Poussin and he developed a kind of scholarship about old paitnings but it was theoretical rather than a how to paitn approach. A lot of paintings you could look at and admire from a technical point of view whereas Tony had another way in. Jacqueline Riva: They are very romantic. Fiery. And really familiar ecause of their relationship to history painting. Constanze Zikers: It's sort of punk classicism, rather than new romanticism. There are no frilly cuffs. It's more to do with Barkly Street (St. Kilda), pots and pans, and bins. It's pure elbow grease classicism at this point, an aperitif. Anela Brennan: It is funny that he uses broccoli to paint his vegetal forms. Everyone is amused by that...And there is spaghetti and hair stuck on his paintings, and paint applied with a cake decorator....(in Tony Clark - Public and Private Painting, Melbourne, 1998, p. 11).