Brush Strokes
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- PIP COURTNEY, PRESENTER: Australia's landscape has inspired artists for generations. But dedicated landscape artists have apparently fallen out of fashion in the fickle world of fine art. That hasn't stopped a dedicated group of painters who go bush a few times a year to work plein-air, or in the open air, following in the footsteps of some of the nation's famous artists.
ARTIST: Being an open-air outdoor painter, the thing that grabs me, has always really grabbed me, is the light and that's really what gets me going in the landscape, it's the light. It's all about - any subject'll do me if there's a light falling on it that looks good.
ARTIST II: If it's an early morning light on a river, for instance, if you can capture that by being there and have a viewer then come along and get that cold, misty feeling, you know, a bit of a shiver up their spine when that first ray of light comes through a cold fog, you know. If you can capture that and translate it so that other people can feel that, then you've done a good job.
ARTIST III: My idea of it all is my feeling of beauty, to capture beauty. To me, beauty is light on a certain object and the landscape, different seasons of the landscape. That sort of thing is what I'm more about.
SEAN MURPHY, REPORTER: They call themselves the Australian Plein-Air Group, landscape painters who gather a few times a year to camp out and paint outdoors. They're following in the footsteps of the Heidelberg School, legends of Australian art such as Arthur Streeton, Tom Roberts and Frederick McCubbin, whose late 19th Century work was the birth of Australian Impressionism.
It's not really a revival of the Heidelberg School; good landscape painting has never gone out of fashion. But for these artists, working plein-air is the key to really capturing the unique light, vegetation and colours of the Australian bush.
KASEY SEALY, ARTIST: It's a similar thing to probably what they did. A lot of artists in history went out in the field to capture the light, get inspiration, ideas, that sort of thing. Yes, it's probably an extension of that.
Truly beautiful works! Amazing talents.
Beautiful and inspiring to me
Wonderful 💙
Dough, Water Soluable Oil Paint!!!!!!!!!!!!! God bless, Alan
Yeah, oils are fine...but i switched to acrylics years back.....in fact, i buy the plastic bottles of colors from the local crafts chain store.....they are all premixed. It is amazing what one can do with pre- mixed color in terms of time spent out in the field.....It also teaches you to be shrewd and careful in your choices of color, and forces you to think. Plus, I paint very opaque, and like how I can paint over the "wrong" color almost right away.....choices can be made in minutes
+oreokookie I agree. I think people are silly when it comes to Acrylic vs. oils. I think if the French Impressionists were alive today, they'd go with acrylic because at their pace, they can handle the rapid drying time.
not only that, but I studied josef albers alot....he was a color genious...I could care less about technique, or "realism"
oreokookir acrylic is too plastic in appearance imo
they're all very good.
Beautiful piece! But don't you have any women plein air painters in Australia?
of course we do www.shirleypeters.com/
pity they weren't on this show
+Quin Sweetman It was refreshing to see so many men actually painting plein aire. It seemed like around me in Illinois USA there are very few men painting like this. It seems to be a prevalent attitude that painting is only for women. So it's great to see men being 'light hunters' together.
Warwick Fuller is definitely the best
you don't have to use terps with oil colors. everyone knows that
The title at the beginning says "bush strokes".... I'm a proof reader
Yes, it's a pun.
3:55 um.... yes, I hate our blue and "green" flag as well
that old boy with the allergy can use watermixable oil's , fucking whinger, rather ironic, me , a pom calling an aussie a whinger,
aussie's. all forearm's and annoying accent's, the fantastic ACDC excluded.
What no women painting out with you?