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Australian artist Jeffrey Smart ((26 July 1921 – 20 June 2013) became internationally recognised for his modernist depictions of urban landscapes. Looming highways, apartment towers, piles of oil drums, air-conditioning ducts are some of the motifs of his paintings. Paintings which invite the viewer on a solitary journey into our everyday landscape. In 2009, during a visit to Australia from his home in Italy, Jeffrey Smart recalled a life well-lived and fondly remembered.

In the early 1930s, along the low-slung coastal promontory of Beaumaris in Melbourne, a middle-aged woman could be seen wheeling a homemade cart stacked with paints and canvases. The artist, Clarice Beckett, produced atmospheric paintings of suburban streets and strangely eerie landscapes. 

A program to mark the 40th anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, in 1974. The setting is Famagusta which appears as a 'double city': a beautiful but crumbling medieval town, set against the stunning backdrop of its more ancient Greek past. On the other hand, it’s a modern, new but completely derelict city.