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...prey upon their fellows promises to prove more unsettling than any of its predecessors. For one thing, the school is proliferating rapidly. One Manhattan showroom is currently showing Richard Pettibone's miniature copies of Andy Warhol's soup cans, while another opened last week with Howard Kanovitz's paintings of his easel, his art-world friends and the backs of his canvases. A third gallery is showing Malcolm Morley's version of Vermeer's Portrait of the Artist in His Studio-a much-admired painting that has also served as the model for a collage...
...most successful modern users of the camera as an aid to painting are the U.S.'s Howard Kanovitz and Britain's Malcolm Morley, both of whom use photography as a way to probe that old Platonic question. Says Kanovitz: "Certainly the film Rashomon and, more recently, the Warren Commission report illustrate how impossible it is to 'tell it the way it really is.' " Adds Morley: "Realism hasn't even been dealt with in the 20th century. The Ashcan School were all preachers, and pop artists are busy trying to make their painting abstract...
Creating Characters. Both painters arrived at film-fashioned realism by the circuitous route of abstract expressionism. A gregarious jazz trombonist who played with Gene Krupa's band, Kanovitz, 39, was first attracted to art by a fellow musician who was studying painting. The more his sideman talked, the more Kanovitz liked what he heard. He enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design, soon moved on to New York, where he got wrapped up in the Greenwich Village group that revolved around Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell. He continued to paint abstract expressionist canvases up until...
Realizing that the figure had a future, Kanovitz abandoned abstraction and went back to his drawing board in earnest. He started clipping magazine pictures, now carries a Pentax camera to snap his own. He likes to think of himself as a film director, casting, arranging and often creating his own characters. The Dance, for example, was inspired by a Derain painting, which was itself inspired by a photograph of off-duty soldiers in a dance hall. Somehow, after the chicken liver and the matzoh-ball soup at a family bar mitzvah, the idea for the painting jelled in Kanovitz...
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