Word: bohrod
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DECADE OF STILL LIFE by Aaron Bohrod. 298 pages. University of Wisconsin Press. $20. Skulls, bananas, ears of corn, scythes, walnuts, pottery, furry toys-almost anything may turn up in Bohrod's rich collage-like paintings. This collection-three of them TIME covers-represents the artist's maturity and is, like Bohrod himself, fresh and distinctly American...
...there is to just rubbing shoulders with great names," says Chicago English Chairman Gwin J. Kolb. Ivy League and West Coast schools tend to use the artist in informal seminars, then let him work while students kibitz or wait to nail him at coffee breaks. At Wisconsin, Painter Aaron Bohrod avoids talks, just keeps his studio open. "Fascinating verbalists may not lead you to the understanding that a shrug of the shoulders can," he says. Many colleges use performing artists primarily to direct student productions in drama, music, the dance...
...your article on Aaron Bohrod [Sept. 28], you failed to mention that his exhibition is being held at the Oehlschlaeger Gallery...
...Touch" signs beside the paintings in the gallery were put up to discourage visitors who are sure that some of Bohrod's realism is collage. Though he denies being a trompe l'oeil painter, Bohrod stands as an eye-fool tower of strength to other long-thwarted realists. To jeers of "get a camera," Bohrod replies that the camera is a wonderful eye, but it has no guiding brain, heart or soul...
...Bohrod is concerned, abstractionism has had it. Says he: "There never was any real love for the idiom, and now the art world is bored to tears with it. Not. of course, the abstract painters themselves, who with a minimum outlay of talent and energy have had their fun for a long time, . nor the dealers who have made money out of it. nor those museum people who have committed themselves so deeply that no graceful or easy exit is open to them...