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Sublime Cocktail

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May 2004, no. 261

Sublime: 25 years of the Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art 

Wesfarmers Arts, $35 pb, 146 pp

Sublime Cocktail

by
May 2004, no. 261

The exhibition murmured, with Baudelaire, of Correspondences. Wesfarmers’ collection has a high proportion of major paintings, each warranting close attention. What elated me, however, was the unusual rightness of the play between works of art. It was years since I had seen a non-thematic display (the Sublime is limitless, so hardly a theme) that reached into works of art obliquely and exercised the art of comparison with true inspiration.

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