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When it comes to the Laci Peterson case, forensic psychiatrist and Court TV expert Keith Ablow knows all the angles. His new book, Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson (St. Martin's Press) painstakingly analyzes what Ablow, 43, calls the psychological "perfect storm" that created Scott Peterson, Murderer. Can Albow, a graduate of Brown and Johns Hopkins Medical School, really get inside the mind of Peterson? You be the judge...
...Keith Ablow: Why would a man who is good looking, who's married to a pretty woman, who's about to become a father, has no known history of violence and who's held down a job-why would such a person end up a killer, and in such a grotesque way? That's probably the primary reason that people were galvanized. I also think, however, that the notion of women being hurt during pregnancy is in this case. He's the most malignant version of something that I think affects many men, who come to my office [Albow...
...most striking development in Ablow's recent work is in its unorthodox, ethereal color. While his previous works were mostly painted in shades of chalky beige and rose with a careful accumulation of paint layers, (a derivative of the direct color technique he learned from Oskar Kokoschka), these paintings glow with blues worthy of Picasso’s Blue Period and warm coppers worthy of Georgia O’Keefe’s canyons. In works like “The Mantle” and “Tuscan Shadows” Ablow’s objects are suffused with...
...Ablow turned to painting still lifes after early unsuccessful bouts with epic scenes of Greek mythology. After receiving his M.A. in Art History at Harvard in 1955, painting still lifes offered him the attraction of “studying the visible world within a controlled and concentrated situation.” Ablow also said that painting still lifes offered, “the possibility of problems with clearly defined solutions...
Once involved in his new project, however, Ablow found that this view was an belittling over-simplification. “Because the objects are inanimate does not mean they are still, and because the objects have been arranged by the artist it does not ensure his control over the world they become,” Ablow said, “What was to have been for me a subject only for study, became an engulfing involvement with a world that, for all its stillness, was elusive, mysterious and open...