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  • "Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings"

    Houston Press, TX
    April 29 2004

    Capsule Reviews
    A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions
    BY JOHN DEVINE, KELLY KLAASMEYER AND KEITH PLOCEK
    [email protected]


    "Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings"

    Born in Turkish Armenia in 1904, Vosdanik Adoian would grow up to be
    Arshile Gorky, one of America's most important and influential
    artists, but he would never forget the land of his birth and the
    village of his difficult childhood. This intimate retrospective at
    the Menil Collection follows Gorky's progress from his apprenticeship
    to the masters through his cubist exercises to his breakthrough in
    the 1940s. Aided by a return to drawing from nature and abetted by
    the surrealists, Gorky experienced a creative explosion as he
    filtered the world before him through his imagination and memory --
    he drew on his agrarian childhood for the sinuous shape at the heart
    of the lyrical The Plow and the Song. The vitality and energy of his
    drawings make their abrupt cessation (Gorky committed suicide at age
    44) all the more poignant. As installed in the Menil, the exhibit has
    been judiciously edited down from the ungainly sprawl and visual
    overload of the Whitney's version. Don't miss the drawings of his
    mother, especially the portrait on loan from the Art Institute of
    Chicago, or the Nighttime, Enigma, and Nostalgia series. Through May
    9. 1515 Sul Ross, 713-525-9400.
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