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The economy was indeed weak when Ronald Reagan took oil ice, largely because of the one of his predecessor's policies that he has continued to follow--tight money. The rest of Reagan's macroeconomic policy has all the coherence of a Jackson Pollack canvas--a splash of tax breaks...
Other painters, however, had no illusions about his merits. Mark Rothko treated him as a master-appropriately, since Rothko's glowing, blur-edged rectangles, now so prized as icons of American romanticism, were largely derived from Avery's landscapes. Avery's influence on American abstract painting in...
The essence of prison life is that it is boring, boring by definition and by design. Yet there are accidental Expressionist stage-set touches: Stateville's round, four-tier cell houses, each with its all-seeing gun tower at the hub; in a prison shop, a row of machine tenders...
Soyer's most successful pictures are his portraits and figure studies. Among the most impressive paintings at the Hirshhorn is his 1980 Paula Hondius, a portrait of old age. This painting of a shapeless body seated in an angular director's chair at the light-struck center of...
Another commanding canvas, painted when Soyer turned 80, is the latest in a long series of portraits Soyer has done of other artists, including Arshile Gorky, Milton Avery, John Sloan and many obscure representational painters. This time Soyer's subject is Mervin Jules, now 70, who is viewed, starkly...