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THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS YOU COULD HAVE USED YOUR ARTISTIC TALENT. WHY DID YOU MOVE TOWARD DRAWING RATHER THAN BECOMING A PAINTER, FOR EXAMPLE...
...self-taught, spent all his life in New York (except for a period of study in Paris) and died in 1978. There were quite a few reasons for well-thinking folk of a conventionally radical disposition not to take him seriously. One: he was a figurative painter. Two: he and his wife Dora Zaslavsky, a noted piano coach, were reasonably well off from his bread-and-butter work of portraiture (which, wisely, is not allowed to dominate this show), and they lived in a big flat overlooking Central Park, surrounded by antique furniture, bibelots and old paintings, some genuine...
...ravages of civil war and Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Now the world sees the news value in Mohsen Makhmalbaf's tale of a woman crossing the desert incognito to find her sister. Even without the headlines, this Iranian film boasts a visual and emotional magnificence. It has a painter's acute eye for beauty within horror: the gorgeous colors of the burkas that imprison Afghan women; the handsome face of a child in a Taliban school as he expertly assembles a Kalashnikov rifle; the vision of one-legged men scrambling to retrieve prostheses dropped in parachutes from a plane. This...
...ravages of civil war and Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Now the world sees the news value in Mohsen Makhmalbaf's tale of a woman crossing the desert incognito to find her sister. Even without the headlines, this Iranian film boasts a visual and emotional magnificence. It has a painter's acute eye for beauty within horror: the gorgeous colors of the burkas that imprison Afghan women; the handsome face of a child in a Taliban school as he expertly assembles a Kalashnikov rifle; the vision of one-legged men scrambling to retrieve prostheses dropped in parachutes from a plane. This...
...show is not to be missed. Signac, for much of his life, was a terrific painter: tough, contemplative, highly sensitive to color and gifted in the organization of forms. Sometimes his pictures are a little pedantic: he goes at his shapes with the stolid determination of a silkworm chewing its way across a mulberry leaf. But the best of them are filled with a joy in life that Seurat, a curiously melancholy artist some of the time, couldn't top. Signac makes you feel--really feel, not just think--what it can be like to be in a world ruled...