{"product_id":"dale-frank-the-days-past-quicklyas-if-he-had-nothing-to-anticipate-2011-160x120cm","title":"dale frank | 'The Days Past Quicklyas If He Had Nothing To Anticipate, 2011' | 160x120cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCode:\u003c\/strong\u003e DDDF11001\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e dale frank\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Days Past Quicklyas If He Had Nothing To Anticipate\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Acrylic On Canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160x120cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2011\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDale Frank works with poured varnish and pigment, letting gravity and chemistry do much of the composing. The result here is a surface that feels both liquid and permanent. Emerald pools sit against buttery cream. A red form pushes up through the centre like a figure caught mid dissolve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title reads like a fragment from a novel. It carries the melancholy of time slipping past a person who has stopped waiting for anything. That mood soaks into the paint. The greens run heavy at the edges. The pale expanses in the lower half feel exposed, almost skinlike, marked by drips and small pockmarks where the varnish has beaded.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrank is one of Australia's most distinctive contemporary painters. He built his reputation on canvases that refuse easy reading. They hover between abstraction and something almost figurative, where a face or a body seems to surface then sink back into the flow. Look long enough at this work and shapes begin to suggest themselves. A head bowed. A shoulder. A hand reaching across the lower register in a streak of coral and grey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe scale matters. At this size the painting becomes an environment rather than an image. You stand inside its weather. The gloss finish holds the room in its reflection, so the viewer is folded into the piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is real emotional weight here beneath the technical bravado. Frank uses beauty as a lure. What he delivers underneath is closer to unease. A portrait of time, perhaps. Or of a man who has run out of it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dale frank","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51469979681001,"sku":"DDDF11001","price":60000.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/0993\/6873\/files\/DDDF11001-Dale_Frank-2011-The_days_past_quicklyas_if_he_had_nothing_to_anticipate-160x120-1_web2000.jpg?v=1782869067","url":"https:\/\/cag.art\/products\/dale-frank-the-days-past-quicklyas-if-he-had-nothing-to-anticipate-2011-160x120cm","provider":"Canberra Art Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}