Word: expressionist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This stalwart cooperative gallery, founded in 1974, shows the work of its members along with the occasional outsider. While some of the members work in sculpture, photography and digital imagery, painting is dominant, representational, abstract expressionist and in-between. I think of art-teacher art and art-student art as the two basic varieties of middling art; much of the art here has the sluggish, hard-earned competence of the art teacher. Bromfield is not to be sniffed at, however; Dale Kaplan's recent exhibition of paintings on Mexican chewing-gum boxes was very enjoyable...
DIED. ALEXANDER LIBERMAN, 87, artist and iconic Conde Nast editorial director who set the style and tone for Vogue and Vanity Fair--and inspired the industry to treat magazines as minor cultural jewels; in Miami. His Expressionist work appeared in the Whitney and Guggenheim museums...
...parents think their two-year-olds can splatter paint as well as Jackson Pollock. But ED HARRIS can attest that neither task is as simple as it seems. The actor is making his directorial debut--and playing the lead role--in a film based on the abstract expressionist, a project that has consumed Harris for six years. "It became a personal project," says Harris, "and I didn't want to hand it over to anyone else to direct...
...artist's identity concerns: a little image, for instance, of a man with a pen whose drawn nib is drawing himself. To Steinberg, each drawing remade its author. It was both a mask and a card of identity, and a proof of existence as well. Never an expressionist, he liked, he said, "to make a parody of bravura. I wish to create a fiction of skill in the same sense that my writing is an imitation of calligraphy: fine flourishes that can't be deciphered, official stamps no one can read." What he didn't know about the semantics...
...Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute presents a show by 20th century figurative expressionist Robert Beauchamp. "Fantasy and Angst" is an exhibit that includes some of his most famous self-portraits. 15 Commonwealth Ave. at the Arlington T-stop. 266-0953. 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. FREE...