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...depict or describe it all too often resort to maudlin bathos or tight-lipped understatement. Years may pass before it can be viewed with anything like objectivity-and then the initial, highly emotional reaction may fascinate the historian as much as the event. On display in Manhattan's Dintenfass Gallery last week was an exuberantly witty and challengingly mordant display of 52 paintings and collages anatomizing an assassination. Its extraordinary impact derived from the fact that the artist, Elias Friedensohn, 42, had chosen to examine the hysteria attendant on the death-not of John F. Kennedy...
WILLIAM KING-Dintenfass, 18 East 67th...
...colors with no relation to a subject. There wasn't enough life in abstract art for me." The life that he paints seems to have a pretty tenuous grip on itself. In a show of 23 recent works that opened last week in Manhattan's Terry Dintenfass Gallery, Goodman's three-panel Trilogy suggests a man who enters a closet and hangs himself. His realism is obtuse, his figures often secret sharers in politely observed crimes or Baconesque participants in some gory exercise. Often he veils or blurs his figures. They seem to enact Dante...
FEDERICO CASTELLON-Dintenfass, 18 East 67th. An admirable show of the Spanish-born American absent from the New York scene for eleven years. A recent Society of American Graphic Artists' prizewinner, Castellon did these mute, melancholy lithographs in Paris. One of his titles speaks for them all: The End of Dreams. Through...
AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY STILL LIFE-Dintenfass, 18 East 67th St. Painting a pear excited Cézanne; in this show 38 modern artists respond to the old-fashioned challenge offered by still life. Jack Levine, Philip Evergood, Sidney Goodman, Andrew Wyeth, Loren Maclver, David Aronson are among the entries. Through...