Ian McKeever Interview: Mystery to the Viewer
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“I am trying to take the sense of speed out of the visual world of looking.” Interview with renowned British artist, Ian McKeever.
Slowing down in a world where “everything is changing all the time” is of the essence to McKeever, who never takes credit for finishing his paintings: “They finish themselves”, he says. A painting can easily sit for a couple of months to a year in the studio before it is once again taken out and recommenced. This sense of timeless flow, McKeever feels, seems to free the paintings from any specific moment or period in time.
Leaving room for the mystery to grow on the viewer by drawing them in only to push them back out again is also at the core of McKeever’s beautiful and suggestive paintings. The sense of mystery is what forms the attraction, and the obvious is of little interest, as he says: “I think there are enough tables and chairs and people in the world already, I don’t see why we all have to paint them as well.”
Ian McKeever (b.1946) is a British artist based in Dorset, England. He is a Visiting Professor in Painting at the Faculty of Art and Architecture at the University of Brighton. Between 2006-2011 he was Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy School of Arts, London. Among his solo exhibitions are ‘Hours of Darkness and Hours of Light’ and ‘Twelve-Standing and Three’.
Ian McKeever was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg at Horsens Art Museum, Denmark in 2014.
Camera: Ole Udengaard
Edited by Kasper Bech Dyg
Produced by Kasper Bech Dyg, 2014
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Supported by Nordea-fonden
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I LOVE everything he just said!!!
This reflective talk/conversation is brilliant. The ideas around the creating and painting in itself compels one to get to work.
one of the best explanations I have heard so far of what one is creating..
One very clear headed interview, an artist explaining his process.
i think that was absolutely brilliant, poetic and graceful.....spiritual is how i would describe him and his work...
@studiocurtis
8 жыл бұрын
Yes, I would agree. I see this series of paintings as maps of soul energy.
I just googled more of his works, >>> OMG such beautiful art!!! I am impressed and in love here.
I found the explanation of meeting a person for the first time and the relevance of this when looking at art for the first time interesting. I remember looking out to sea one day and being totally mesmerised with the constantly changing colours and shapes of the sea as the sun came and went .... a moment in time and a photo would never capture what I saw and felt and i don’t think I’d see it the same way again, that’s what an amazing painting can do.
Love the thinness of the paint.
This channel is gold, thank you for your amazing work
Great to have watched this Ian! My brother directed me here and I loved how you spoke about works! Such great stuff here.
To be able to express your mandate with such clarity and eloquence... what a gift. Very inspiring, even if his work is following a past historical art ethos (abstract expressionism). And as a video, just stunning. Beautifully crafted, Louisiana!
@chrisc1257
5 жыл бұрын
it's all scripted window-dressing.
Thank you. Wonder-full. 💙
Bravo! So well spoken and elaborated.
Loved lots of parts of this conversation.
Beautifull thoughts about the abstract and a very interesting focus on painting and the special possibilities of painting to catch the primary experience, the feel, the lifeforce of a moment and I think that has to do with the feeling of life, and the breath and the multidimensionality of experience
Beautiful paintings! I like his thinking
Beautiful 😍 Thank you for sharing 🎨🖌😍👋
An honest and brilliant artist ,I've learnt alot
Lovely paintings.
very well said I loved that!
Food for thought...
He gave us couple of amazing advises !
wow! ,very insightful
Very informative, insightful, and inspirational! Great video! 😊👍
Truth. Every single word! 🥰
beautiful words
Good points
love the onion story. at age 12 a friend and I would study the paintings in a gallery window. Often they were jewel like still life paintings ala Chardin. I remember one with an egg. Trying to understand why someone would paint such a mundane thing, we decided it was "good for what it is, but what it is isn't good." lol!
Great and insightful interview but I beg to differ on his comments on figurative painting. YES other mediums can be used to express this subject, but that latent "time" he discusses in this interview, happens in figurative painting too. Also were you to approach a Titian, or a Sargent macroscopically you will see vast tracts of "abstraction" with the nervous unique and emotional "hand writing" of the artist embedded in it! Photography is not as involved in its plastic manipulation of the material, so it is different to painting but it too has unique and treasured properties. Fantastic interview though and love the work!
@johnmorgan5495
6 жыл бұрын
'm glad someone has pointed this out, Braque and Picasso and others were not competing with photography .
@jhb61249
3 жыл бұрын
I was impressed by this man's discussion and explanation of his singular personal perspective on painting and justification of his own work. He repeatedly refers to his own thinking and feeling and attitudes towards the subject. He makes no judgement of the work of others, those not inline with his own views and perspectives, but simply explains his own personal artistic self. (I think he would say, "to each his own". At a particular moment in time, I might totally agree with him, yet on another day I may not. But that is of little value. His work is of value because it was his own personal expression of his view at that time. I feel much can be gained by seeing his work and hearing him speak if approached with an open mind.
Makes sense
Very good
excellent
@artart911
6 жыл бұрын
big is not always better
Thank you...I'm into this in wanting some thing never seen before...not figurative yet energetic
yes, good point;;;
articulate visually and verbally.
Watching this in Feb 2021, no truer word was spoken: 12:29
I think I almost started to see somthing interesting, it's a bit like having ten different atmospheres all linked by the paint. a Rorschach blot thats built up. Best I've heard someone explain abstract paintings.
I have a hard time with knowing when to leave my artwork alone and stop trying to make it ‘better’
A human being IS
Hard to warm to.
Wonder how much artists have to hone their pitch rather than their art these days.
THAT SOME GOOD DECORATIVE ART. ONE OF THOSE PAINTING I THINK I SAW AT ROSS. MAKING DECORATIVE ART CAN BE FUN.
@Yanaschaf
5 жыл бұрын
No need to shout. No need to comment, actually :)
Ian McKeever defending abstract art. Interesting...
Abstract painters, they’re an odd bunch aren’t they?
Why should we teach children philosophy as early as possible? To get good enough at anything you must go beyond performance into the mechanics of its ontology
6 figurative?
Hi
Absolute crock of shit! If he calls himself an Artist then I'm the reincarnation of Velasquez!
Yeah, he succeed made me not understand what he paint
If you can't paint figurative, or produce strong meaningful images it would be honest to accept and say 'I'm an abstact', but saying that there are a lot of chairs and human figures out there, looks like you're attacking something to 'protect' your own abstraction. It was a very interesting interview, until he threw that attack about figurative art 👎
@debzeb6899
Жыл бұрын
His point was that reproductive images are better done in other media but with painting, now, you can do something different about the human eye and our response to images,
blabla
He doing a lot of trying....he said more in 15 min than Picasso said in his life time ?
@epictetus9221
7 жыл бұрын
It's an interview.
@bazmak9798
7 жыл бұрын
Of course.......if Picasso had nothing to say about his art,why should I listen to a guy with not much talent?
@Yanaschaf
5 жыл бұрын
Picasso is overrated. And an asshole. Why listen to an asshole... :)
@d-sensations1526
3 жыл бұрын
He tries a lot in general! You don't 'try to' when you do art, you just let it be
Well he sure takes himself seriously
@brandonwilson7371
3 жыл бұрын
Lol indeed
Boring!!!
@MatthewBrowne1959
5 жыл бұрын
You need to get out more often I think
one trick pony
@MatthewBrowne1959
5 жыл бұрын
You obviously haven't spent any time really looking at his work.....save your comment until you know what you are talking about.
Sorry but this kind of abstract painting is dead. Every dentists bored wive does them now. It used to be daring and revolutionary some decades ago. But now everyone who thinks he/she is an artist, but doesn’t actually have something to say, does abstract art. And they all look pretty much the same after a while. 9:34 min so he just found out about how a central figure with elements radiating out from the center makes a good composition? Pro tip: if you divide your painting in not horizontal thirds, that also works quite well. Imagine how his mind will be blown, when he hears about the golden ratio.