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Philip Pearlstein Paintings—Oils
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Philip Pearlstein Paintings—Oils
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VERTICAL STUDY OF MODEL WITH BLOW-UP CHAIR, 1998 Watercolor on Paper 20 x 14 inches 50.8 x 35.6 centimeters © Philip Pearlstein. Courtesy of Robert Miller Gallery, New York. Philip Pearlstein
- American painter Philip
Pearlstein is one of the most important and innovative artists of
the contemporary Realist school. He studied at Carnegie Institute
of Technology and received his Masters in art history at New York
University. During the time that Pearlstein began to work realistically
the Modernists were absolute in their rejection of the Realist option.
Although Pearlstein remained as much a Modernist as any of his contemporaries, he found himself obliged to reconsider the Realist option, and in so doing helped to reinvent the terms by which Realism could once again be made into a vital art. The Milwaukee Art Museum honored him with a retrospective exhibition in 1983 and accompanied the exhibition with a monograph on his complete paintings. |
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STUDY
FOR TWO MODELS WITH BLOW-UP CHAIR, 1998
Watercolor on Paper 14 x 20 inches 35.6 x 50.8 centimeters © Philip Pearlstein. Courtesy of Robert Miller Gallery, New York. |
