Bruce McClean - Beyond the pose (exhibition)

Today in my build up of primary research I decided to visit Leeds' art gallery, particularly looking into Bruce Mc Cleans  - Beyond the pose exhibition. 

Work collected over a 50 year period.

Bruce Mcclean is an artist/ sculptor with an abstract flair of using mixed media and a plethora of techniques and styles to create beautiful pieces from real person sources.

An artist with all around abilities, no preference to the standard rules or composition but an artist that prides him self on the use of line, colour, shape, texture and tonal variations.

Here you can see one of Bruce Mccleans works exhibited in Leeds art gallery (name:N/A)

I particularly liked this piece  for its majestic colour scheme  using complimentary colours Yellow and blue to make certain aspects of this painting stand out for example its De stjil inspired aesthetic having a multitude of shapes infilled with complimentary colours to set a eye popping visual. With this piece being of an abstract nature it captures an environment of which is unclear having no point of reference, made with oil on canvas this piece has areas with beautiful translucent qualities for example the oblong with the thin white layer of paint  is allowing the light to reach the cool violet reflecting the colour, which creature a very erratic textured composition which works very will on this piece.  

I think the use of geometric shapes in this piece adds to the nonsensical qualities of this painting again contrasting with the block coloured shapes and the line drawn shapes.

overall I think this piece by Bruce is strong and fits in well with the rest of his collection and I could take forward the techniques in which he has used to create a simple yet effective piece.

I particularly like this piece by Bruce McClean again using oil paints to portray an abstract environment using geometric shapes and hints towards the human form.

However this piece first caught my eye for being more intricate with a contrast in areas of precision opposed to area which are almost unfinished and still quite sketchy which sets an ambivalent tone towards this piece.

Personally I love the mainly analogous colour scheme running throughout the piece used in a subtle way to create a cool feel with light blues through to cold pinks in contrast to this calm outset the painting has a few cleverly place hints of yellow creating a focal point due to the visual effect yellow and violet make, which is very effective.  

I really enjoy this aggregation of sculptures designed and made by Bruce McClean 

with its well thought out array of colours.

Standing out the most to me is the fact that this piece as a whole is purely successful because of it composition and the way each individual piece is placed opposed to the other, aesthetically being successful due to the obtuse shapes, lines and colours coming together as one.    

Again you can see another on of Bruces pieces, I decided to look closely into this piece due to its variation to other similar pieces using the same techniques, this piece uses a wide range of colours using a multitude of complementary colours producing a very busy again abstract piece which tells a story and emoting a number of feelings with one side being rather cold and vibrant and the other side being very mellow, producing a very vintage worn out look on one side and a new clean look on the other.

Throughout looking over Bruce Mccleans work although the multitude of materials and techniques he practices with he always follows the same distinction end to end in each collection which is something I can take forward into my next project.