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Levine was a figurative painter known for his political and social commentaries about economic inequality, capitalism, and political power. He painted in a distinctive cartoonish style in which people…
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Jack Levine
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Boston, United States of America
Date:
1939
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Jonathan:I know you do. It cracks me up that you do; it amuses me. You know, up till like eight or nine years ago, let’s not forget, I was painting apartments for a living. Apartments. Walls. Rooms. I…
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Donald Margulies
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1992
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Late in his career, Guston turned from abstract expressionism to figurative art, creating iconoclastic, allegorical paintings. Moon is a combination of still-life, self-portrait, and landscape. In the…
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Philip Guston
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1979
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Motherwell’s most famous series of artworks was his Elegies to the Spanish Republic, which he intended as “a funeral song” for the losing side, the Republicans, in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)…
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Robert Motherwell
Places:
Greenwich, United States of America
Date:
1980
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Petlin was known for his narrative art and for depicting subjects drawn from his own personal history. Weisswald (White Forest) is a series of nine paintings almost all of which are set on what looks…
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Irving Petlin
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1987
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Bruskin explored the intersection of his Jewish and Soviet identities in art that took the Soviet Union’s obsession with iconography and slogans in a different and subversive direction. In a series of…
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Grisha Bruskin
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1988
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Laurence’s Tefillin questions both western art and patriarchal aspects of Judaism. The triptych portrays parts of women’s naked bodies, bound in the leather straps of tefillin, the small black leather…
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Geoffrey Laurence
Places:
New Mexico, United States of America
Date:
1999
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June 7, 1943
Mr. Edward Alden Jewell
Art Editor
New York Times
229 West 43 Street
New York, N.Y.
Dear Mr. Jewell:
To the artist, the workings of the critical mind is one of life’s mysteries. That is…
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Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko
Places:
Brooklyn, United States of America
Date:
1943