How does culture affect your design aesthetic? This first in a series of extended chats with the artist Russell McKane. Each episode of the series will be compiled from a series of shorter reels/shorts which I record on various topics. But not before compiled into one longer-form video.
These are essentially teaching and sharing videos that share the experience of fifty years of painting.
The series is aimed at artists of all levels but also provides useful insights into my methods and thinking for my dedicated followers.
This episode focuses on the Japanese design aesthetic used in this painting. One of the things I have wrestled with since I was a teenager was the difficulty of forcing the Australian natural landscape into a European design, golden mean-based system. So I have always been someone to 'break' the rules in my work. As I say in this video I have been experimenting with Japanese compositional forms recently in my photography. So it was natural to frame this painting in these terms as the landscape lends itself to this way of seeing.
Also, Japanese works tend to make the tree an important subject whereas in European traditions the tree is always a part of a bigger landscape and not the main subject but the scale and framing device for other purposes.
There are two exceptions to this in Australian art history: Hans Hysen and Albert Namatjira. Perhaps I should write a blog about these exceptions on my website, www.russellmckane.com. You can always go to my website for more details on my art and processes. Look under the Stories tab on the menu for the blog stories.
By the way, this painting has recently sold. So I dance a happy dance as I can now buy more materials to paint more.
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