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Bernard Chaet is displaying his paintings, drawings and sculpture at Boris Mirski Gallery (166 Newbury St.). He is technically accomplished, but seems to say little. His style is Matisse - plus - Boston - Museum - modiness. Even a favorable review of his show in the Boston Sunday Herald (there is no such things as an unfavorable review in a Boston paper) commented on Chaet's lack of originality...
Indeed the family is a second of Mirski's favorite themes. Young children and protective fathers appear repeatedly. In one such scene, "Father and Children," a father holds one child on his shoulder and hugs a second to his chest. The vertically flowing streaks that Miss Swan uses so frequently run behind the figures in the form of thin, wavering lines...
...drawings at the Mirski Gallery, Lebrun's massive, thick-loined human figures, often headless and otherwise distorted, alternately embrace and support each other. They seem to battle against the grasp of the deep shadows which model their limbs and torsos. The prevailing mood is Dantesque. Lebrun's style adapts excellently to his bat-winged "Lucifer" and to several smaller drawings for the "Inferno," but seems out-of-place when applied to "Two Dancers...
Carl Nelson's recent drawings and paintings at the Mirski Gallery are a delightful demonstration that contemporary art's abstract style can be a great deal more than sufferable (which it rarely...
Boston's astute Director Mirski, an old hand at presenting local artists to Boston society, eliminated the usual opening-day cocktails and canapes for the Bloom exhibition. He hung the more cadaverish canvases upstairs, on the assumption that anybody who could walk upstairs could stand what he would...