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Adelaide-born Jeffrey Smart is one of Australia’s most celebrated internationally renowned twentieth-century artists, known for his transformation of the mundane into the extraordinary. His carefully arranged and precisely recorded paintings are instantly recognisable and often bring into focus the lines, forms and colours of the modern world.

While the artist lived permanently in Italy from 1963 (initially in Rome and later Arezzo, Tuscany), he remained indebted to his formative training in Adelaide. He first studied art at the Adelaide Teacher’s College and the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts (1939–41), where he received tuition from Marie Tuck and Ivor Hele. Smart’s visit to the studio of Adelaide modernist Dorrit Black in 1941 was particularly influential. Black’s teaching of how to compose a scene based on the mathematical principles of the golden mean, gave Smart’s distinctive painting style a defining sense of geometry and unity.

Since his first solo exhibition in 1944, Smart received considerable and critical success throughout his long career. His work has

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Jeffrey Smart

Biography

Jeffrey Smart is acclaimed for his precisely delineated urban and industrial landscapes. Having absorbed the influences of Australian modernism in the 1940s, he worked in a distinctive, highly finished and detailed style.

Smart spent most of his working life in Italy but continued to exhibit in Australia where he enjoyed popular and critical success. His paintings are held in major collections in Australia and overseas including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Smart was born in Adelaide in 1921. In the late 1930s he studied part-time at the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts under Marie Tuck and Rupert Bunny while also training at Adelaide Teachers College from 1939 to 1941. He visited the studio of the pioneering modernist painter and printmaker Dorrit Black, whose views on symmetry, line and composition greatly influenced the young artist.

Smart began exhibiting in group shows in the early 1940s and had his first solo exhibition in Melbourne in 1944. Inspired by the poetry of TS Eliot, his early landscape The Wasteland II 1945 was

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Jeffrey Smart AO

Jeffrey Smart (1921–2013) was an iconic realist painter, acclaimed for his urban and industrial landscapes which form one of the most original and recognisable bodies of work in the canon of Australian art. He created a distinctive style that captured the stillness and alienation of the industrialised world with metaphysical nuance and a refined, crisp clarity of vision. Born in Adelaide in 1921, Smart studied part-time at the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts under Marie Tuck and Rupert Bunny in the late 1930s. Influenced by modernist artist Dorrit Black, Smart acquainted himself with the 'Golden Mean', a ratio used to create mathematically-sound proportions that translated into artistic composition. This geometric proportion ratio has been used since ancient Greek times in many works of art and architecture. Smart used the complex network of interlocking rectangles, triangles and diagonals to calculate the structure of his paintings and form the basis of all of his artworks.

Smart began exhibiting in group shows in the early 1940s and had his first so