Word: soyer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stranger and stranger. Freed from the chore of sticking slavishly to the surface likeness, the artist today is free to probe more than skin-deep. The result often produces a psychological study in depth that eludes even the roving camera's eye. Or, in the instance of Raphael Soyer's Homage to Thomas Eakins (opposite), it can bring to life a whole galaxy of familiar figures, bound together by the unifying vision of one man who knew and admired them...
Biographer as Surgeon. Soyer's group portrait is essentially a salute to the past, an evocation of his fellow realists and their combined debt to Eakins as the greatest painter in the American realist tradition. Soyer unabashedly searched the past for precedent, modeled his composition on Fantin-Latour's 1864 Homage to Delacroix. He prepared himself by making separate portraits of each figure from life, except for the late Reginald Marsh, whom Soyer had painted 24 years earlier; he simply copied the old portrait into the final 6-ft. 8-in. by 7-ft. 4-in. canvas...
...Hamptons form anything but a school. Alexander Brook still paints tender nudes from life, works in a former stable in the old whaling town of Sag Harbor, and putts around in his Model T and 1935 Rolls-Royce. Realists such as Fairfield Porter, Paul Georges and Moses Soyer live within a short drive of Abstractionists Ludwig Sander, Corrado Marca-Relli and James Brooks. Even New Yorker Cartoonists Charles Addams and Saul Steinberg find the region warmly inclusive...
...RAPHAEL SOYER-Associated American Artists, 605 Fifth Ave. at 49th. With fine-line shadings and blank areas of light, Soyer brings out the fullness of body and the spiritual vacuity of New York girlhood. Past teen-age but not quite adult, his would-be students and sometime art ist's models display the wistful grace of instinctive, empty gestures. Sixteen etchings. Through...
...maimed Lavinia, daughter of Titus Andronicus, painted by Larry Rivers (for Show Magazine) to celebrate Shakespeare's 400th birthday. Willem de Kooning's Rosy-Fingered Dawn at Louse Point cocks the abstract expressionist's eye at nature. There is even the genial easel tradition in Raphael Soyer's portrait of his painting twin Moses...