Film by Eric Minh Swenson. Produced by Seda Baghdasarian and Laguna College of Art and Design
Jerome Witkin is best known for his monumental scale paintings, which critics have described as being among the great narrative works of our time. This exhibition is dedicated to a cross-section of his equally remarkable drawings and serves to emphasize the critical role of line in his artistic process. To a degree greater than most contemporary painters, Witkin integrates line seamlessly with fluid masses of color. These emphatic contours showcase the importance of shape and structure in his compositions.
Witkin's previous exhibitions have drawn rave reviews. The Los Angeles Times hailed Witkin's "indelible, pungent force," and cited his work as ". . . a breakthrough in post-Cold-War art." Art in America declared: "Jerome Witkin charges the realism of his paintings with Action-Painting technique, tour-de-force draftsmanship and emotionally loaded narration." Art historian Donald Kuspit, called Witkin's works "dreams in the grand visionary manner of the Old Masters" . . . painted with the rhapsodic abandon of pure sensation . . . unequivocal masterpieces." Indeed, art critic Kenneth Baker has declared that "Witkin's only peer is Lucien Freud."
Jerome Witkin's works are included in many major museum collections internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Since 1971 Jerome Witkin has been a distinguished Professor of Painting at Syracuse University in New York.
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6 дек 2012
