Word: adami
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...veiled narrative - like disconnected stills from a Fritz Lang film - from which R.B. Kitaj, in such works as Malta (1974), constructs a new form of history-painting. There is no American equivalent to the cold edgy handling (nightmare as literature, so to speak) in paintings by the Italian Valerio Adami. But the difference especially comes out in "domestic" figurative painting, which seems more complex and problematical - more difficult of approach - in Europe than in America. Hence the extraordinary flavor of the nudes and portraits by Lucien Freud, the 52-year-old grandson of Sigmund: more psychic territory is crossed...