Word: soyer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book, Soyer lists his cherished qualities in painting as "love, tenderness, intimacy." His portraits are almost always of friends or family, and in one unusually dramatic canvas showing a group of people awaiting the end of the world, he painted himself surrounded by those he loves. He likes to paint lovers and young married couples, and if there is pain, he will lay that bare too. He painted one woman over a number of years, starting when she was 18, and then at various milestones and crises in her life from her marriage through her pregnancy and divorce...
...teachers, Soyer remembers vividly George Bellows and Robert Henri, and most especially he remembers the night that Henri introduced him to a Daumier drawing of hungry men and women and their sad-eyed children. He immediately felt the "sympathy with which the artist drew this group." Soyer has always had this same sympathy for his own sad-eyed figures. They often seem overwhelmed by their own thoughts, caught in a moment of reverie when, while most turned in upon themselves, they reveal themselves the most. Of his style, Soyer says: "I like an artist who talks with a low voice...
...young Jewish twins, whose family had been exiled from imperial Russia, knew hardly any English when they went to their first American school, but Moses and Raphael Soyer were accomplished in another kind of language that quickly endeared them to their teachers. Whenever a holiday approached, they were set to work decorating the halls and classrooms, for no one else in the school could paint a livelier Easter rabbit, a jollier Santa Claus or a spookier Halloween witch than the Soyer boys. Today, at 62, the twins-as well as their younger brother Isaac-are noted artists whose quiet...
...book about him-Moses Soyer, by Charlotte Willard (World; $12.50)- has just been published, and Manhattan's ACA gallery has on display a handsome exhibition of his latest work, chiefly a rich array of nudes...
...Raphael Soyer...