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Most of the canvases he paints depict pulpy male nudes who couple lewdly on beds or sit like withdrawn junkies in cell-like boxes. The current show also includes many grotesquely distorted portraits of his friends, among them George Dyer, his studio assistant, Isabel Rawsthorne, wife of Composer Alan Rawsthorne, and Painter Lucian Freud, Sigmund's grandson. On one canvas, a hypodermic syringe rises from what looks like a well-beaten body, while in a corner of another a bird that has been plucked stark naked screeches desperately on his perch...
...emphasis on soft, amorphous Oldenburgian constructions, works that fold and change from day to day. They share sloppiness and seeming crudity. Museumgoers in Chicago and Milwaukee this year found themselves climbing inside semitransparent, womblike constructions by Frank Lincoln Viner and Jean Lindner. Unlike Oldenburg's work, these works depict no recognizable object, but like it, they change with the touch of a human hand...
PART of the problem lies in the treatment of the subject. Lester didn't set out to depict the Beatles' world as it really is, but largely created a wacky life-style for them that would be novel for the audience. Feinstein, on the other hand, simply shows us hip youth as it is. This could be fun if we weren't already familiar with this terrain. But we've seen or even lived what he shows ourselves; nothing in You Are What You Eat is new or exciting. Since the film has no characters, there is no personal story...
...Larger Audience. In the patient backs of the garment workers there are echoes of Daumier and Degas, while the light of Levine's Coney Island is haunted by the shades of Manet and Prendergast. Yet in choosing a 19th century idiom to depict the fast-disappearing world of hand-labor shops and nostalgic memories of big-city beaches, Levine is, after all, doing only what any artist must-suiting style to subject...
Paper Lion--An ambitious attempt to depict George Plimpton in all his complexity. Sports columnists seem to like it better than movie reviewers do. At the GARY, Stuart near Tremont...