Word: raphaels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Raphael Soyer is a shy little artist who would rather paint such crestfallen angels than anything else. His models, he says, are not professionals, but "mostly young girls who are interested in dancing or writing or philosophy. Usually they are not very happy...
Born in Russia on Christmas Day 48 years ago, Soyer came to the U.S. at twelve, left high school after his sophomore year to work and study painting at night. Like his less well-known brothers Moses and Isaac Soyer, who also paint, Raphael grew up with the notion of painting what he knew as skillfully and unpretentiously as he knew how. Last week's show was his first in five years, and for it he had painted 23 new oils...
...Raphael reaches his Broadway studio by subway at 9 each morning, bringing with him, stored in his mind, some of the life of Manhattan's streets and of the lonely apartments high above the streets. By the time he catches the uptown subway to return to his wife and daughter at 5:30, the chances are that a little of that same disordered life has been transferred to canvas. "My work is factual," says Soyer. "So much art that's exhibited nowadays has nothing to do with life. I go to see the new painters. I know what...
...faintly embarrassed answer was that the best of them were gone. The Russians had shipped 1,695 masterpieces home, left only 1,231 minor paintings to cover the walls. Among the loot: Raphael's Sistine Madonna, Correggio's Holy Night, 17 Rubenses and as many Rembrandts, 24 Van Dycks and seven Poussins, as well as paintings by Tintoretto, Velasquez, Vermeer, Manet, Renoir, Degas and Van Gogh. Total value of the Zwinger loot...
...dawn of the Renaissance which produced Raphael, there were painters whose art, compounded of form and fire equally, remained a major triumph of the Christian world. The city of Florence was no bigger than Peoria, Ill., but in a single century-the isth-she blossomed with the paintings of Masaccio, Ucello, Botticelli, Luca della Robbia, Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo Lippi, and a score of others...