Pro Hart, Australian Artist, 77, Is Dead
from the NY Times
SYDNEY, Australia, March 30 (Reuters) — Pro Hart, a self-taught Australian artist who became internationally known for painting sweeping landscapes of the Outback by layering and scratching paint onto canvas, died on Tuesday in Broken Hill, the mining town where he was born and where he lived. He was 77.
His death was announced by his son, Kym Hart, who said Mr. Hart had motor neurone disease, a condition in which nerve cells in the brain that control the muscles break down.
Mr. Hart’s Outback landscapes — created mainly in oils and acrylics using not just a paintbrush but any tool, even a cannon — have been exhibited all over the world. But Mr. Hart was never fully accepted by the art world in Australia. His work is not in the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.
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