Word: graven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would not choose to be eulogized. But let us just recall a thought from Pericles' Funeral Oration, which he often quoted: "The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over the native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives...
Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of any thing
...Recently a patriarch of the ultraorthodox Hasidim sect paid a visit to Aronson's studio and saw only apostasy. The patriarch's son, a bearded Hasidic rabbi last week came for a second despairing look at the opening of Aronson's latest display of images, graven or otherwise m Manhattan's Nordness Gallery...
...hands pry through the surface as if trying to poke through to heaven. Although cast in medieval garb and aglow with the epicurean colors of Rembrandt, the art of David Aronson merely stages modern problems in ancient dress. What Aronson pictures is mans effort to cast aside his graven image, discard his mask of duplicity He has succeeded where few contemporaries have even dared to try in marrying today's religious concerns with the visual arts...
...Manhattan's St. Mary the Virgin Church only to discover belatedly that they were not in one of Cardinal Spellman's parishes. The ceremony-conscious Anglo-Catholics seem oddly yoked in brotherhood with low-church "Anglo-Baptists," who frown on stained glass and statuary as Biblically forbidden graven images and celebrate austere Communions on plain wooden tables free of candles or crucifix...