Video: Alan Macdonald's Painting: Rembrandt and Coca-Cola
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Scottish artist Alan Macdonald combines things in his works that at first glance are completely incompatible. Judge for yourself - he paints pictures in the style of Dutch painters and at the same time includes elements of modern pop culture in them.
The heroes of the artist's paintings are, in a sense, time travelers. They seem to have left the portraits of Rembrandt and, finding themselves in the 21st century, get acquainted with a new way of life. Ladies in lush dresses eat chips, naked beauties drink cola, and powerful burghers ride motorcycles in the breeze. Moreover, their faces often remain pensive and detached, as if people have not yet understood what they are doing and where they are.
Often the author adds several lines to each of his images, which, on the one hand, explain the meaning of the picture, and on the other hand, they further confuse the viewer and give the work a completely new and unexpected meaning. These signatures Alan MacDonald takes from contemporary popular songs.
Alan MacDonald's paintings are more questions to humanity than answers to them. The author raises the problem of the search for faith and individuality in the modern world of mass culture and consumption. As critics say, "we recognize ourselves in the faces of his pilgrims."
Alan MacDonald was born in 1962 in Malawi, Central Africa and has lived in Carnoustie, Scotland since 2003. His personal exhibitions have been repeatedly held in London, New York, Amsterdam, and as parts of group exhibitions, the artist's works have traveled all over the world. More works of the author can be seen on the site.
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