February 22, 2012
ymutate: John Brack: Collins St, 5p.m. 1955,oil on canvas, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne,  found at ngv.vic.gov.au John Brack’s Collins Street, 5p.m. is considered to be both an iconic painting of peak-hour Melbourne and a social commentary on daily life in the 1950s. The painting depicts people emotionally closed down by the grind of daily work. The office workers are unaware of each other, despite their close proximity, suggesting a loss of individuality and a lack of social cohesion among the masses. John Brack painted with sincerity from his experience of working in a city-based insurance company as a young man. To develop this painting, he used sketches made over many weeks while standing in a doorway in Collins Street between 4:45pm and 5:15pm when he observed streams of workers leaving the city after a day’s work. He also referred to photographs of buildings in Collins Street and used his friend John Stephens as a model for the man wearing glasses closest to the left hand-side of the work.

ymutate:

John Brack: Collins St, 5p.m. 1955,oil on canvas, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne,  found at ngv.vic.gov.au

John Brack’s Collins Street, 5p.m. is considered to be both an iconic painting of peak-hour Melbourne and a social commentary on daily life in the 1950s. The painting depicts people emotionally closed down by the grind of daily work. The office workers are unaware of each other, despite their close proximity, suggesting a loss of individuality and a lack of social cohesion among the masses. John Brack painted with sincerity from his experience of working in a city-based insurance company as a young man. To develop this painting, he used sketches made over many weeks while standing in a doorway in Collins Street between 4:45pm and 5:15pm when he observed streams of workers leaving the city after a day’s work. He also referred to photographs of buildings in Collins Street and used his friend John Stephens as a model for the man wearing glasses closest to the left hand-side of the work.

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