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An extraordinary and unusual art book
The Impact Of Chaim Soutine is an extraordinary and unusual art book tracing how the works of Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) affected the artistic sensibilities of avant garde artists de Kooning, Pollock, Dubuffet, and Bacon. Filled cover to cover with full-color reproductions of bold painting, each image is paired with comments directly attributed to Soutine and the great artists he affected. Enhanced with artist and studio photographs, a chronology and biography, and a roster of Soutine Paintings in the Galerie Gmurzynska Exhibition, The Impact Of Chaim Soutine is a truly stunning and informative look at the influence and legacy of a notable man's abstract art and a welcome addition to personal and academic Art History collections. ... Read more

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It's tempting to put artists in their places, linking them to an era, a style, or a movement, but there are always a few, like Chaim Soutine, who don't quite fit. "Soutine's paintings are so different," writes Kenneth E. Silver, "that the first effect is likely to be utter bewilderment."

Soutine was born in a Jewish ghetto in Lithuania in 1893 and died in 1943, in wartime France, where he was forced to hide in the countryside to elude Nazi occupiers.He has been called a postimpressionist, in keeping with his time, but his torturous, richly colored paintings--the studies of dead animals fresh from the butcher shop may be his best-known images--relate more closely to expressionism, or de Kooning's wild women.

This fascinating volume, published to accompany an exhibition at New York's Jewish Museum, includes 10 essays on Soutine's life and work. It is filled with black-and-white snapshots of the handsome artist and his many friends, including the painter Amedeo Modigliani and the American writer Henry Miller, that transport the reader to "that visual France words can but feebly trace"--the magical interlude between the two world wars. There are only 32 color plates of Soutine's paintings, but the photographs, reminiscences, letters to and from the artist, and critical perspectives make for a richly satisfying book. --Peggy Moorman ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on June 1, 1998. The length of the article is 1841 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The expressionist painter Chaim Soutine was an accomplished stylist but not a great artist. His paintings depict a man deeply involved in his own emotions but incapably of fully expressing them in a cathartic, artistic manner. His energetic use of oils, however, as he created images of landscapes and people, cannot be denied.

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Title: Soutine at the Jewish Museum.(painter Chaim Soutine)
Author: Mario Naves
Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 1998
Publisher: Foundation for Cultural Review
Volume: 16Issue: 10Page: 50(1)

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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on March 22, 1998. The length of the article is 859 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Rifts in the Visible: Chaim Soutine, Painter (1893-1943) / Felures dans le visible: Chaim Soutine, peintre (1893-1943).
Author: Rosette C. Lamont
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1998
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: v72Issue: n2Page: p335(1)

Article Type: Book Review

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