Word: aronson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...David Aronson, son of an immigrant Lithuanian rabbi, breaks the Torah's Second Commandment with exquisite verve He not only graves golden images, but even takes them from the Bible Their pinched faces and twisted bodies are distorted with the febrile passion of Aronson's acknowledged artistic influence, El Greco...
Devil's Footboard. That their youngest son took up art was reason for sackcloth and ashes at the Aronson home. His first one-man show drew a drubbing from the Jewish Daily Forward's art critic. Another critic called his seven-toot-long Last Supper, with its disciples writhing as if from indigestion, "a suitable footboard for the devil's bed." Recently a patriarch of the ultraorthodox Hasidim sect paid a visit to Aronson's studio and saw only apostasy. The patriarch's son, a bearded Hasidic rabbi last week came for a second despairing...
...always been a rebellion for Aronson. After eight years of Hebrew studies, he turned against the strictures of orthodoxy and started learning to paint with Karl Zerbe. At first he defiantly depicted only New, therefore more forbidden, Testament figures Works like his Young Christ (see color) won him a place in 1946's 14 Americans exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY STILL LIFE-Dintenfass, 18 East 67th St. Painting a pear excited Cézanne; in this show 38 modern artists respond to the old-fashioned challenge offered by still life. Jack Levine, Philip Evergood, Sidney Goodman, Andrew Wyeth, Loren Maclver, David Aronson are among the entries. Through...
...David Aronson...