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Philip Wofford, at 36, is scarcely an abstract painter at all. The pictures in his current exhibition at SoHo's Emmerich Gallery all involve the general experience, if not the detail, of landscape-not as seen by the eye's perspective, with sky at the top and earth below, but as though taken apart and rewoven into an expansive shifting pattern of space. Wofford, who teaches art at Bennington College, regards a visit he paid to the Southwest in 1968 as one of the key experiences in his work-especially some nights he spent camping on the edge...
...figure emerging like a captive from its shroud of bronze is profoundly Michelangelesque. Above all, there is the sense of intellectual energy, of a powerful mind striking to the core of problems which it alone could formulate. Perhaps Matisse was not as "radical" a sculptor as he was a painter. His sculpture was avowedly traditional; it addressed itself, as his paintings did, to the classic themes of the erect or reclining figure, the portrait and the nude. But only a few early modern sculptors - Rodin, Bourdelle and Degas in old age - achieved the same vitality of surface and gesture...
Black Hundreds. After sweeping analyses of Russian history and economics, Trotsky swings into the highlights of the 1905 St. Petersburg uprising like a man directing a painter of social-realist murals. He describes the January massacre of peaceful petitioners in front of the czar's palace -the Bloody Sunday that snapped the last thread of respect for the monarchy. In the last three months of the year, anger and discontent erupted in workers' strikes and military mutinies in Russia's major cities. After 50 days of what Trotsky called "ruthless object lessons," the czar and his Black...
...walks purposefully forward, a self-assured youth guiding the beast forward by the certain force of his pure and adolescent figure. His gaze and grace look to the opposite wall, where his grown-up self seems to stare back from the commanding eyes of a self-portrait of the painter, urging the viewer to join the horse behind an innovative spirit embarked on a journey of artistic adventure. The self-portrait dates from 1901. Gertrude Stein remembers this year,"...one day we were discussing the dates of his pictures, and I was saying to him that all that could...
...games with perception by dropping words and letters into his pasted or painted collages. Grouped together they form a telegraphic narrative of Picasso's life in Paris; "Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Rum" (1914) or "The Architect's Table" (a fitting description, too, of Picasso's idea of the Cubist painter as architect) evoking the bohemian conviviality of pre-war France; clippings from French or Spanism newspapers contrasting the national characteristics of a dapper "Man with a Hat" with a Spanism-speaking guitar. Picasso's use of musical motifs is evidenced by the many studies of guitars; Cubist fragments, staccato rhythms...