GRACE COSSINGTON SMITH

BY LAMA AND HANNAH

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Who is she?
Grace Cossington Smith was an
important early exponent of modernism
in Australia. Her work formed part of
the first significant wave of
Australian responses to European post-
impressionism. A brilliant colourist,
she drew her subject matter from the
familiar surroundings of her home and
her experience of Sydney city life.
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work
Description of her work
Some of her paintings from around 1932–33 reflected some
common interests of international contemporary painters.
These paintings show objects being broken down into
forms based on their colours similar to Cézanne, and
have a cubist manipulation of some of the imagery. Her
House With Trees, 1935, shows houses in pink, with
unnatural blues for some of the bushes surrounding them.
A distortion of the realist colours is apparent, with
distortion also of the perspective lines of the actual
house.
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