Levine, Jack - Social Realismo
Reconstruction - 1962
Oil on canvas
88.9 x 101.6 cm (35 x 40 in.)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
The Art Lover - 1962
Jack Levine
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Birmingham '63 - 1963
Oil on canvas
De Young Museum, San Francisco
La Belle Epoque - 1965
Oil on canvas
16 x 13-1/4 inches
Private Collection
Portrait of Anna Weisberg - 1966
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 inches
Private Collection
The Patriarch of Moscow on a Visit to Jerusalem - 1975
Oil on canvas
213.2 x 237 cm (84 x 96 in.)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
Jacob Westling with the Angel - 1975
oil on canvas
40 x 35 inches
Private Collection
Volpone at San Marco - 1977
Oil on canvas
101.6 x 88.9 cm (40 x 35 in.)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
In the Valley of Kidron - 1982/83
Oil on panel
10 x 7-3/4 inches
Runway - 1999
Oil on canvas
24 x 21 inches
Private Collection
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For over six decades, Jack Levine (born 1915), one of the foremost social realist artists of his generation, has been a major proponent of representational form and moral content in American art. Levine consciously embodies a living link to the traditions represented by the European “Old Masters,” an artistic debt openly acknowledged in his painting Six Masters: A Devotion (1963), which depicts Goya, Velasquez, Rembrandt, Titian, Rubens, and El Greco. Drawing inspiration from Goya, as well as Honoré Daumier, and George Grosz, Levine also has been a perceptive critic and satirist, recording societal ills, and human foibles and failings, with uncompromising candor. Addressing the pessimistic perspective that characterizes many of his major works, Levine has observed: “I am primarily concerned with the condition of man. The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations of the human race.”
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11:36 AMé de um realismo que impressiona, pelo lado caricatural do qual sabe tão bem tirar partido. De alguma forma em alguns momentos me faz lembrar da Paula Rego.
12:45 PM
Pensei o mesmo, Lady, quando estava a colocar as pinturas. Embora as figuras não sejam tão definidas como em Paula Rego, a composição dos quadros e a deformação dos corpos é similar. Adoro este pintor e daria o que tenho para ter um original dele. Nunca os vi ao vivo e a cores mas creio que devem ser esplendorosos.
4:57 PM
Levine.........caricaturar os dias como se estes fossem reais.
beijo.
3:09 AM
ótimos quadros. Todos eles Lindos.
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