Ken Knight Art Exhibition Opening
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- čas přidán 24. 05. 2016
- Wentworth Galleries present "Above and Beyond". A new exhibition of paintings depicting Venice and the great Australian landscape by one of the world's great plein air landscape painters. The exhibition opens May 24th 2016
Wentworth Gallery & Ken Knight, good job. Together we are strong! :) :)
A brilliant painter.
wonderful paintings....congrats
Really great paintings.
Good artist thank you.
Does anyone appreciate the input of a skeptic? No, not really. Nonetheless, this is the first I've heard of this artist and to have a glance at some paintings. And I have two strong gut reactions that result in my doubting these works. These reactions are:
1) There is an overwhelming photographic aspect about them all. And I strongly suspect that all these paintings are extremely tied to their photographic source material. I see that basis as a crutch and a weakness.
2) After decades of studying master paintings in museums, I have found that the masters always succeed at one thing. And that is they avoid and resolve the common amateurish problem of unpleasant glare shining off of oil paint. I see that this artist has not dealt with this problem at all. If I were a collector, I would never purchase an oil painting ruined by glare.
I'm sure I could go on, but let's leave it at that.
Not so much a sceptic as simply incompetent. The guy works en plein air, not from photographs.
@@chrisschilling7585 However he works, he arrives at very superficial effects. These are flashy paintings, not good paintings.
@@KpxUrz5745 So not based solely on photographs then.
I've seen a lot of Knight's works in the flesh. Some of them could almost pass for early Streeton. If anything, Knight's painting is sometimes a bit too pastiche-y of Streeton. That's okay: he's working out of that tradition of Australian Impressionism and plein-air landscape painting. But you have to be a pretty good painter to begin with to resemble early Streeton (the work he did around Sydney Harbour in the 1890's, for instance).
You first indicated Knight was amateurish. Now he's merely flashy. This has ended up telling us more about you than Knight.
@@chrisschilling7585 I stand by every word. I didn't say his paintings are amateurish except in the sense that he has not conquered the problem of oil paint glare. However, even worse than the problem of glare is the problem of flashiness, a word I use to indicate use of superficial techniques to attract attention, as this look tends to impress those who are not well educated about art. So this is a strong clue that this artist has not absorbed the most important lessons of the masters. I, for one, am not impressed.
@@KpxUrz5745 Who are the masters Knight should be taking lessons from? As I wrote, Knight has clearly studied and assimilated Streeton, who could be considered a 'master'.