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...lyrics are old, but the bitterness in Nelson's quiet Southern drawl suggestively evokes this tundra-beast's hurt. Mickey Raphael's Dylanesque harmonica adds to the bittersweetness, blowing a soulful lament around Rudolph's gloomy late...
...produced almost as many self-portraits as Rembrandt, who painted himself 60 times. The first face of Raphael Soyer is dated 1917. The artist printed it on a sheet of cheap paper with engraving plates he heated on the gas burner in the family kitchen in The Bronx. Though coarsely crosshatched, its composition a tad askew, the engraving is a riveting reflection of the artist at 18, staring at the mirror with the same unswerving, enigmatic gaze that he would cast upon the world for the next 60-odd years of self-portraiture. By 1920 Soyer had a lithographic crayon...
...Vadis? The question is superfluous. Where Raphael Soyer is going has never been in doubt. His self-portraits have been emblematic of both his personal detachment from his subjects and the lonely course he has undeviatingly pursued in an era that was long dominated by abstract art. How steadfast he has remained is demonstrated by the show of 17 paintings, "Soyer Since 1960," currently at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., together with a 146-piece exhibit of engravings and lithographs entitled "Sixty-Five Years of Printmaking." Judging from the paintings, Soyer, who is 82, has spent the past...
...Terra Museum of American Art in Evanston, Ill. The painting was meant to be a sort of early-American effort at cultural packaging: 38 of the world's greatest masterpieces all on one canvas. Depicted, in remarkable detail, are the works of such artists as Da Vinci, Rubens, Raphael, Titian and Rembrandt. Conceived by Morse and Novelist James Fenimore Cooper (the creator along with Cooper and his family are the spectators in the work), Gallery was painted by Morse in 1832, about the same time he turned his inventive talents to the telegraph and Morse code. Terra, a chemical...
...Raphael Fischler Eindhoven, The Netherlands...