Overview

This is a visual biography of an artist showing a painters evolution from the early paintings to the current state of the art work over a period of sixty five years. There is some commentary on the modes or strategies of painting that came about in a journey from a realist style of working to an abstract way of working and what came in-between .This is volume two of a two book set that covers work done from the early 90's to the lat 2010's.

Description

This book series is a visual journey of an artist who's range of art work is in drawing, painting & sculpture. That basically shows the evolution of his work from his early years to his later years. There is some commentary on how his interest in visual art came about & what his teachers at Pratt Institute of the 1960's taught that turned out to be invaluable advice that would impact on the artists worldview of art, the direction of his work and later, the artists professional career. And also how the New York art worlds views on the style of abstraction effected the way he worked in the studio before the digital revolution in the late 1990's had changed the way people perceived the visual world.

Genre:art
Sub-genre:American / General
Language:English
Series Title:The Art of Donald John Mackinnon
Series Number:2
Pages:148
Hardcover ISBN:9798317822569

Jig-zèd

Paint may dry but will never die vol 1 These are a couple coffee table books I happily pick up and really look at because Don is so damn well versed in the practice of looking himself. A serious draughtsman, colorist, and student of light, texture, and the age-old art of watching paint dry – seeing what it does, how it reacts. These paintings give up all kinds of great techniques to steal and are lovely just to marvel at. This volume stretches the early work realism of the 1970s including some beautiful pieces, domestic and street scenes, that capture a rapidly evolving ability. The late 70s see little interjections of surrealism, though also steadily working away in that kind of Jasper John's-ian celebration of the physicality of paint. A real engagement with materiality that culminates in the 1980s and carries the following decades into territory all its own. There are some amazing pieces in these books. Large Log X, Vital Balance Waterfall and also works in oil sticks, Beast & Red and Late Afternoon Grass Forest are some I adore from Vol. 1 and there are far too many among Vol. 2 to list here. These books are beautifully bound, filled with high-quality prints on paper that hold colors purely. Do yourself a favor and get the set for your coffee table. Or get the set and then get a coffee table. You’ll be better off with both. Read more

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