is an artful title for an innovative exhibition at the Geelong Art Gallery that explores affinities between Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the great Japanese printmakers of the Ukiyo-e school. It’s yet another instance in which a Victorian gallery is surveying the work of artists firmly associated with Sydney. At the opening, Campbell confessed it was the first time she’d ever been in Geelong.
The catalogue reveals a few credible visual echoes across time, in a double page spread which juxtaposes Hiroshige’s. Another spread puts Campbell’s triptych,, a work from her personal collection.In both cases, there are compositional similarities that are only noticeable when one looks from one work to the other. This isn’t possible in the exhibition itself as it is divided into three separate galleries for Campbell, Preston and the Japanese artists.
Best of all was Camille Pissarro, who wrote to his son Lucien, saying what he liked so much about these works: “Nothing that leaps to the eye, a calm, a grandeur, an extraordinary unity, a rather subdued radiance.”What both Preston and Campbell have learned from the Ukiyo-e printmakers is a kind of visual grammar. This may be seen in images divided by a tree or pole in the foreground, or in compositions that resemble snapshots in their apparent informality.
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