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John McLean, a prominent British abstract artist, died on June 11, 2019 at the age of 80. As one of the most important abstract artist in the world, McLean’s work can be found in many public collections, including Tate, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and China Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Guangdong Art Museum.
John McLean in his studio, 2015 | © Michael Proudfoot
John McLean, British, b.1939 in Liverpool to Scottish parents. Lives and works in London. McLean studied at St Andrews University from 1957 to 1962 and at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London from 1963 to 1966. McLean taught at various art schools in London from 1966 and had his first solo exhibition in 1975. He lived in New York in the late 1980s.
John McLEAN
Spring Tide, 1979
Acrylic on canvas
162 x 166 cm
Color is at the root of all McLean's paintings. He works on a large scale, painting spontaneously onto the canvas using fluid paints to make rhythmic abstract compositions. McLean has often cited Matisse and Miró exhibitions as having had a profound effect upon his work, through them he discovered ‘a much more sophisticated way of using shape.’ McLean’s shapes however are more formal, introducing a minor degree of narrative, offering the potential for any shape to be open to interpretation as a sign or metaphor. McLean regards the abstract elements in his work as being informed by external experience and having an emotional dimension.
John McLEAN
Estate, 2002
Acrylic on canvas
233 x 170.5 cm
John McLean is not only advocated greatly by the influential American art critic and essayist Clement Greenberg, but also praised as "The Great Color Artist" by the western art world, and was highly regarded by many major critics from 1970s, including the great Cubist scholar Christopher Green and important figures such as John Elderfield, the former chief curator of Painting at MoMA. John Elderfield compared McLean to Cezanne and Matisse on the use of colors.
John McLEAN
Batoche(Homage to GR and MM), 1989
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 255 cm
The great German-language poet Rilke spoke of Cezanne in this way: “Simple reality is capable of teaching people; if you are involved in these realities and be well prepared, you could feel their influence on you.” This sentence also applies to John McLean’s abstract paintings.
- by John Elderfield, former Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
John McLEAN
Captain Black, 1982
Acrylic on canvas
96.8 x 217.2 cm
From 2016 to 2017, the exhibition Like Singing and Dancing: John McLean's Abstract Paintings has held at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum and Guangdong Art Museum, brought together paintings created by McLean from the 1960s to the present and discussed how the artist used Color-field painting to create the “simple reality” as John Elderfield referred.
As John McLean‘s representive gallery in Asia, PIFO Gallery will present a retrospective exhibition for John McLean in June 2020, bringing the legacy of this great artist to Chinese collectors and art lovers.
John McLEAN
Fleeting, 1993
Acrylic on canvas
111 x 82 cm
John McLEAN
Neuenlage, 1985
Acrylic on canvas
107.5 x 138 cm
John McLEAN
Solstice, 2008
Acrylic on canvas
120.2 x 150 cm
About the Gallery
PIFO Gallery was founded in 2006 as a major gallery in China specialized in the study and promotion of abstract art. PIFO Gallery concentrates on the participation of the course of Chinese contemporary art and the exploration of post-war European master artists and seeking for all possibilities of art power in the dialogue and collision between the two aspects. We hope to see a growing number of collectors to take on the roles of a connoisseur, with a more in-depth understanding of Asian and Western abstract art, and appreciate the artists discovered, reshaped and firmly believed in by the gallery.
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