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...impressionistic flair all his own, he faithfully recorded the comfortable little world of pleasant surroundings and relaxed people he knew and loved so well. As the title of the first major exhibition of his work, now at the Museum of Fine Arts, puts it, Fairfield Porter was a "realist painter in an age of abstraction." And now, a full seven years after his death, he is finally getting the recognition he deserved, but never received...
...American art world is full of young prodigies these days, none of them quite as convincing as its formerly young one, Frank Stella. It was in 1970 that Stella, at 33, became the youngest painter ever to be given a retrospective by New York City's Museum of Modern Art. To survive the envy and the scrutiny it brought, one needed the balance of a downhill racer, the skin of an alligator and the irony of Groucho Marx. Stella had all of these things...
...retrospective of Stella's prints, accompanied by a full catalogue by Art Historian Richard H. Axsom, is on view at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art until mid-March; it then tours American museums through 1986. It shows, among other things, how a painter can go from mediocrity to real importance as a printmaker if, and only if, he gets the right help from the right people. Making prints is a collaborative art, and the job of a master printer is to show a painter what is possible...
...would not have added much to the sum of American graphics. Most of his lithographs and screen prints until then were small versions of his paintings, done up to ten years after the event, without much sign of the fierce inquisitiveness he showed as a painter. To expand, he needed a larger technology-and got it from two printing firms, Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles and Tyler Graphics Ltd. in Bedford...
...parents. In a family, each member exists in the eye of the beholder. Since each person's vision differs, the illusions of a lifetime may be stripped away in bruising and bracing moments of revelation. Isn't this precisely what one expects a fine portrait painter...