The most popular painting in the museum was Pavel Tchelitchew’s Hide and Seek
Ira Kuznechas quoted5 years ago
of American Moderns—Joseph Stella, Max Weber, Arshile Gorky
Ira Kuznechas quoted5 years ago
Visiting their homes I saw paintings and graphics by the Soyer brothers, Philip Evergood, David Burlick, Jack Levine, Ben Shahn; etchings by Käthe Kollwitz; lithos by Daumier
Ira Kuznechas quoted5 years ago
There were also reproductions of Modigliani, Soutine, Pascin, Chagall, Rivera, Orozco, Benton, Curry, Wood and Marsh
Ira Kuznechas quoted5 years ago
The only other teenage student was Robert Smithson, who later became a famous Earth Artist
Polina Oparinahas quoted5 years ago
Mark Rothko
Rothko’s paint surface is more inviting and his work has a pure sense of decoration, but do these pleasantnesses add up to some ultimate bliss? What I find bland induces nirvana in some viewers.
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The classical tradition understood art as the ideal, the beautiful, the perfect, the purified.
Polina Oparinahas quoted5 years ago
They are more expressive than the painting, but do they deplore violence, or celebrate it?