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Mark Dennis
Giorgio de Chirico
Peter Purves Smith
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Framing question
Dennis has created an eerie atmosphere in his artwork through a use of scale and space. Compare Dennis’s approach to artmaking with De Chirico and Purves Smith and outline how these artists have incorporated elements of Surrealism into their work in order to convey a mood to the audience.
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Mark Dennis
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Journey into the Infinite
Painting
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Lithgow High School
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Journey into the Infinite explores my perception of salvation, and the seemingly intangible notion of eternity. It is an effort to express my experience of the Christian faith through ambiguous imagery, representative of my spiritual and intellectual journey through life, and attempts to comprehend our ‘infinite’ continuance after death. A fascination with De Chirico’s metaphysical cityscapes with the desire to express my Christian faith in an original way, led to the creation of tense almost unsolvable scenes, through a simple use of layered washes and expressive line and ‘scribble’ work (using black biros and charcoal).
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collection
art gallery of
new south wales
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Giorgio de Chirico (Italy, b.1888, d.1978)
The Divine horses of Achilles, Balios and Xanthos 1963
Painting, oil on canvas
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Purchased 2006
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art gallery of
new south wales
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Peter Purves Smith (Australia, b.1912, d.1949)
New York 1936
Painting, oil on canvas
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Purchased 1960
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