MuseoMag: MuseoMag 2016_01

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Title:: "You have to bring your own contemporary brushstroke": H. Craig Hanna's first Museum exhibition will take place at the MNHA from March 4 to June 6, 2016

4 museomag 01 ‘ 2016 After acquiring in 2015 Arrangement of Dancers, a majestic painting of the Amercian artist H. Craig Hanna, the Musée national d’histoire et d’art will exhibit more than fifty of his recent works (2007-2014). This is the first museum exhibition dedicated to his œuvre. Thematic interview. renaissance artists and their legacy While visiting Italy, you studied the great masters of the Renaissance. The quality of your own drawings is remarkable. Which artists did influence you most? Where did you find your inspiration? When I started to paint with a model, from life, the end result of my painting was very average. When I looked at the masters like Titian, Lotto, Preti, the quality of their draughtsmanship was so much more refined and better observed that it pushed me to better improve myself. By comparing your average drawing to their more accomplished works, you want to push it further and get better. I’m trying to reach the highest level of expertise in draughtsmanship. technique In many of your works you combine traditional painting techniques with a process reminiscent of reverse glass painting. By not only applying paint to the underlying panel but also to the superimposed acrylic glass surface you partially invert the traditional painting process, creating a tantalizing effect. Since when do you follow this approach and can you tell us more about it? I reached a level with the traditional medium of oil and canvas that made me feel I couldn’t go any further because I wasn’t being modern. It wasn’t representing the time I lived in. You have to bring your own contemporary brushstroke, just like Van Gogh did. Choosing to paint on plastic was a way of introducing a new look on an old subject. There was a progression. It started with me trying on many surfaces before plastic. I started with plywood, foam… I always experimented with modern materials. The Perspex itself was probably in 2007-2008. It really worked well, I was really hooked, it was exciting. “you have to bring your own contemporary brushstroke “ h. craig hanna’s first museum exhibition will take place at the mnha from march 4 to june 6, 2016. H. Craig Hanna: “I’m trying to reach the highest level of expertise in draughtsmanship.“ © éric chenal

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