Word: soyer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Previous winners in painting: Charles Burchfield, Andrew Wyeth, Rico Lebrun and Raphael Soyer. In other years, the award is given for sculpture, the novel, poetry and drama...
...none too lighthearted: a series of nights during World War I from his native Austria to Budapest and finally to the U.S. in 1921, when he was 17. At one time he was a bus boy in Atlantic City; at another, he and his close friend, Painter Raphael Soyer, enrolled in a class to learn machine embroidery. When Gross got married, friends had to help out. "Someone bought me a ring; someone else provided the wedding supper, and a third bought the marriage license." All the while he studied art, but before 1935, the year...
...least a hint of image-some sand dunes by Karl Knaths ("Naturally, we all knew about dunes anyway, but we didn't know about these dunes"), a Pietà by Abraham Rattner "that compares with the last sculptures on that theme by Michelangelo." a standing nude by Raphael Soyer ("We see freshly the tired flesh, the dull face, the patient, loving application of paint"). Concludes Getlein: "You find that the only reasonable answer to 'What's new?' is given by the older painters, those who are still painting for vision, for representation, for organization, for almost...
...search. Signed color lithographs by Dubuffet and Braque sold for $45 and $75 at the University of Chicago show. New York's Juster Gallery offered such signed works as a Miró color etching for $90, a Picasso poster for $75. The Associated American Artists started with Raphael Soyer at $14.75, and its unsigned prints included a $19.50 Manet, a $32.50 Chagall, a $40 Renoir, a $70 Cézanne, a $190 Rouault...
...Soyer will go to melodramatic lengths to show his distaste for nonobjective painting. In one lecture he displayed slides of five abstract paintings, defied his audience to tell him which two were done by professional artists and which was the work of a parrot, a monkey, and a child m nursery school. "What satisfaction does one get from painting in a way that requires no knowledge, no technical skill? What pride in accomplishment can one have? Nonrepresentational art is nothing more than personalized decoration " says Soyer firmly, if barely audibly. "Good representational art is something for contemplation. Like building cathedrals...