Dorothy Braund 'Fall' mid century modernism Steve Rosendale’s exercise in nostalgia

Steve Rosendale’s exercise in nostalgia is heady with old-world charm

Around the lovers spring flowers

Original digital print

dated and titled bottom margin of the first panel

believed to be a portrait of the artist’s second wife

Dorothy Braund 'Fall' mid century modernism Steve Rosendale’s exercise in nostalgiaAustralian modernist Dorothy Braund pursued simplicity. As she described, it knocked her out theres no chance for accidental effects. If you are simple everything has to relate and work an ethos that produced work that was more musical than literal, hymns about people, places and activities. Fall, an original oil painting, is a modernist triumph. Across a bruising plane, Braund paints a near abstract figure in a leotard reminiscent of a ballet dancer.