Word: discobolus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...studied with Adolf Gottlieb and married Jack Tworkov's daughter. His paintings clearly show that he feels the loss of the pristine Romantic tradition. He has an unaffected appetite for the sublime and its subjects: towers, cliffs, icebergs and heroes (even if we see only the backside of the discobolus, even though the thing in his hand looks more like a bowling ball than a discus). Just as clearly, he doubts if sublimity can be revived. His rendering of a Giacometti sculpture into a long, ghostly streak of thick white pigment on a black ground is poignant for this reason...