NEAR AND FAR
Jan 05, 2022
3 minutes
By Gladys Lai.
In Jeffrey Smart’s iconic artwork , a lone figure watches us from a street corner. Around him are fixtures of Sydney’s urban landscape – a stretch of Macquarie Street lined with arboresque lampposts, construction debris on the Mitchell Library doorstep – but they seem as foreign as they do familiar. It is a painting often used to demonstrate the enduring relevance of Smart’s artistic vision. Here was the city
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