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...Hirshhorn, an art that is embraced in lawful wedlock...
...portraits have been emblematic of both his personal detachment from his subjects and the lonely course he has undeviatingly pursued in an era that was long dominated by abstract art. How steadfast he has remained is demonstrated by the show of 17 paintings, "Soyer Since 1960," currently at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., together with a 146-piece exhibit of engravings and lithographs entitled "Sixty-Five Years of Printmaking." Judging from the paintings, Soyer, who is 82, has spent the past two decades in vigorous reaffirmation of his credo that "art must communicate, it must represent, it must describe...
Soyer's most successful pictures are his portraits and figure studies. Among the most impressive paintings at the Hirshhorn is his 1980 Paula Hondius, a portrait of old age. This painting of a shapeless body seated in an angular director's chair at the light-struck center of the canvas is a triumph of Soyer's unsentimental realism...
...bodies-always female-are not beautiful in the classic sense. Heavy-haunched and often pregnant, Soyer's models have inspired his freest, most impressionistic and ultimately his finest work. Among his most memorable pieces are the full-length 1952 Nude at the Whitney Museum, the lithographs at the Hirshhorn print show and the drawings of nudes that are scattered through his entire oeuvre...
...could Europe produce the painting within 70 years or so of finishing the room? That in effect is the question posed by "De Stijl, 1917-1931: Visions of Utopia," an exhibition that opened last month at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and will go to Washington's Hirshhorn Museum later in the spring. Organized with exemplary intelligence by the Walker's design curator, Mildred Friedman, it brings together nearly 300 paintings, studies, items of furniture, sculpture, stained-glass panels and architectural reconstructions. The catalogue, published as a book by Abbeville Press, contains essays by a dozen specialists...