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Stewart MacFarlane
Still in full development and likely to become one of the most typical representatives of Australian figurative painting, Stewart MacFarlane is a notable contributor to the creation of an Australian identity. Dramatic, colourful, and sometimes shocking, MacFarlane's paintings uncover the intense human dramas that run beneath the civilized order of society. In a framework of stark realism - a realism where recognizable Australian cityscapes, superbly evoked, sum up all Western urban life - the artist suddenly lets loose a surreality of human gesture and emotion, a cryptic enactment that seizes the viewer with its potency. Each of MacFarlane's canvases holds a self-contained design: a woman, or a man, or both together, at a moment in life when the dreams and desires of erotic love have sharply conflicted with reality. Each canvas thus highlights a typical problem of modern sexual relations. But assessed as a group, these pictures go even further, for they span the entire socio-psychology of contemporary life.
Stewart MacFarlane
Stewart MacFarlane's small paintings are the focus of this catalogue and survey exhibition. The small paintings are direct observations, foundations for the major works, while still standing alone as complete in themselves.
Stewart MacFarlane
Who are these people populating the canvasses of Australian artist Stewart MacFarlane? Across four decades, MacFarlane has recruited friends, strangers and other artists to act as protagonists in his staged dramas. His paintings glow with saturated colour, often theatrically lit, highlighting the anxieties lurking beneath the patina of our apparently techno-comfortable contemporary urban life. Narrative is eerily implied. These people want something, and their desire leaches from the canvas. MacFarlane's dramatic style forcefully displays the narrative possibilities of the painted work. Beyond fashion. MacFarlane's art is never out of place with current trends. He stands as the master of Australian contemporary narrative painting. Stewart MacFarlane was born in Australia in 1953 and has studied, lived, and exhibited in both Australia and the United States. "His extraordinary work uses the vacuous vocabulary against itself. His hyper-bland technique and greasy, high gloss colour rips into the aching absence of humanity in the yuppie universe" - David Broomfield.
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