Word: corbinos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other prizes ranged from typical Max Weber still life, Colonial Table (second prize) to one of Ivan LeLorraine Albright's painfully detailed studies of decay. Where-Fore Now Ariseth the Illusion of a Third Dimension, an also-ran. Sure eye-catchers were two robust paintings of fishermen -Jon Corbino's moody, swirling Fog, which caught a moment of mist-bound helplessness at sea, and Zolton Sepeshy's briny fifth prize, Fisherman's Morning, full of the smells of a Lake Michigan fish pier...
...Oldster Royal Cortissoz of the New York Herald Tribune, the flatly conservative dean of U.S. newspaper art critics, offered Cincinnati a charming, flowing figure-piece: Jon Corbino's The Family. Connoisseur Cortissoz, erstwhile art crony of the J. P. Morgans, father & son, will tolerate no such modernistic nonsense as distorted proportions and experiments with the abstract. CJ Calm, fortyish Dorothy Adlow of the Christian Science Monitor picked a gaunt, naked vision, Ezekiel, a Biblical allegory (Ezekiel 37:3-Son of man, can these bones live?), by 29-year-old Bostonian Nathaniel Jacobson...
...Corbino, born in Sicily 37 years ago, was brought to the U.S. as a child of eight, reared in Manhattan's lower East Side. What Painter Corbino learned of the Renaissance and Romantic painters of Europe, to whom he is often compared, he got entirely from U.S. museums and reproductions. He worked his way through Manhattan's Art Students League and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts taking jobs as a dishwasher, cook and soda jerker, kept on painting in his own way, modeled his methods not on the French Impressionists or the U.S. Realists, but upon...
When, five years ago, Manhattan's Macbeth Gallery gave him his first big metropolitan one-man show, critics were surprised by such old-worldly gusto in a young U.S. painter. But they had to admit that Jon Corbino was not afraid of big subjects, and that he was one of the soundest draftsmen...
...primarily a portraitist, Corbino concentrates on the sweeping gestures and bodily movements of the men, women and horses that he paints. Attendant weakness of Painter Corbino's work is that his classically muscular people and horses lack individuality, look very much alike. Though he belongs to a generation of revolutionary painters, Painter Corbino snorts scornfully at modern...