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John Brack Collins st 5pm

Welcome to my Wiki page, here you will find my investigations on the representation of Urban Australia. This painting represents the Urdan lifestyle in Melbourne. The dull colours of brown and murky yellow doesn't show much excitement in the city. The detailed faces show the seriousness in their busniess life and the bunch of people at the back look like a group of robots marching, being controlled like they can only work all day doing the same job every single day.

She practises a fugue, though it can matter to no one now if she plays well or not. Beside her on the floor two children chatter, then scream and fight. She hushes them. A pot boils over. As she rushes to the stove too late, a wave of nausea overpowers subject and counter-subject. Zest and love drain out with soapy water as she scours the crusted milk. Her veins ache. Once she played for Rubinstein, who yawned. The children caper round a sprung mousetrap where a mouse lies dead. When the soft corpse won't move they seem afraid. She comforts them; and wraps it in a paper

"Suburban Sonnet" by Gwen Harwood The "Suburban Sonnet" is a poem written by Gwen Harwood. She wrote a series of sonnets about women's experience of domestic life and this is one of them. In this sonnet Harwood has includes some aspects of a sonnet e.g. 10 syllables in each line, 14 lines in total has a rhyming pattern from A B A B C D C D but they the pattern changes and turns into a E F G E F G and also she doesn't use personification. Why does the sonnet form work? Even though it doesn't follow all the rules of a sonnet it has most of them so it is conceded as a sonnet. It is something new and different which gives it a twist and makes it interesting to read. Harwood’s use of descriptive language in the sonnet lets us feel like where part of the sonnet with the mood set in the opening two lines, ‘ //She practises a fugue, though is can matter to no one now if she plays well or not.’// Is sad and worrisome and sets a scene where nothing she does will ever matter. This sonnet constructs an image in your mind thinking that a women’s experience of a domestic life is frustrating and infuriating and sounds like a warning to other women to stay away from this life style. Most women might find this sonnet not very effective but for others, some might find it very true and understand the emotions of the sonnet spread by Gwen Harwood.



"Collins St 5pm" By: John Brack

John Brack’s Collins St, 5pm, is a plain and fascinating painting of office workers that is shaped with limited colours. The colour and structure of the painting are vibrant to the meaning it conveys. The repeated horizontal lines and irregular vertical features make up the grid-like structure, and many sharp lines and edges are used in this painting. The drawn-out rectangles within the grid are used to express the horizontal nature of the streetscape. This structure provides an overall sense of order to the painting and is reflective of Brack’s initial visual motivations. The grid is also often used by architects as they design facades of city buildings.

The repetition of shapes is used to build a sense of unity within the painting. It also highlights the dullness of the employees that have nine-to-five work routines. This concept can be seen here in the repetition of geometric-shaped hats, windows and facial shapes.

John Brack uses high tonal contrast and relative size to draw attention to the figures in the foreground. He uses more muted colours and smaller scale figures in the middle ground and background to create a sense of distance.

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