Collins St. 5pm Analysis

Collins St., 5pm was painted by John Brack in 1955 and features office workers walking to the train station on Collins Street in Melbourne after finishing work. The structural qualities he uses vitally help convey the meaning. In the foreground, the people moving with blank expressions suggests that they are moving without thinking or feeling, it creates a very robotic and automatic feeling which ultimately feels cartoonish and fake. The figures facing the same direction also creates a strong sense of urgency and importance to where they are headed. Brack developed this technique in his painting to show that the workers were heading on only one direction which was home at 5pm.
Brack created this artwork firstly by drawing and sketching out