Word: alcalay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once you decide that the Mirko (or Alcalay, or Reimann, or Neuman, etc.) language is the one you want to learn, the "grammar" seems correct. Teachers' corrections are improvements-- your eyes tell you that even while your ego rebels...
...high points of the current Boston gallery scene. David Howard's interesting and well written essay on Aesthetics With-in Social Form calls attention to the fascinating relationship between the cultural structure of a community and the aesthetic environment in which it exists. Chip Chapel's interview of Alcalay, Georgians, Neuman, which follows Howard's article, is also first-rate...
...current exhibit at the Ward Nasse Gallery (118 Newbury St.) should be of interest to the Harvard community, for it shows the recent drawings of Albert Alcalay, instructor in Drawing at the Carpenter Center. The story of this artist's success seems almost story-bookish. Imprisoned in 1941 for being a Yugoslavian Jew, he talked his way out of one concentration camp by persuading a Nazi colonel that his artistic future should not be destroyed. Recapture, in another camp, he used his abilities to forge false documents and again he escaped. After the liberation, he made his way to Rome...
...Alcalay was admitted to this country in 1951 under the Truman Bill. Equipped only with his talent and humor, he has become one of Boston's leading artists and has had successful shows also in Washington and New York. Alcalay's most recent works are ink drawings on rice paper, a painstaking medium in which he shows his ability as a draftsman...
...specialty in marine painting. But at any given time they may also have works of high quality of other periods; currently their stock includes a fine Fanti-Latour and several Flemish still-lifes. As they do not run regular exhibits this is mainly a gallery for the serious collector.ALBERT ALCALAY: Structure, Structure, Structure...