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Walter Davis, a forward for the Phoenix Suns, was named Rookie of the Year in the National Basketball Association yesterday.
The show, which includes over 100 pieces, catalogs every step of Davis's career. Davis started out painting realism and moved quickly out of that stage under the influence of European post-Impressionists and cubists. Indeed the first two rooms of paintings strongly echo Picasso, Gris and Leger. Davis, as...
Ignoring the theory behind it, Davis's work holds up better in the eyes of the uninitiated than some other abstract art of the past 50 years because Davis usually gives the viewer a little piece of reality to hang on to--a word or a number slipped in among...
The subject matter of the paintings is usually fairly unimportant. Sometimes, however, the titles of the works give away Davis's intent and lead the viewer to play a guessing game to figure out how the abstractions represent what the title suggests. For instance, the mural Davis did for a...
Standing alone, Davis's works are fun. In the context of his art theory, they pose perplexing but mind-teasing problems. The Fogg show is undeniably well-put-together and definitely worth a visit, but it disappoints if its goal is to explain how a modern artist like Davis comes...