Gorky's distant likenesses: a recent exhibition of Arshile Gorky's portraiture, the first show devoted solely to that subject, featured works ranging from precise, highly individuated drawings to paintings in which sitters were stripped of specific traits, gestures and even personality as the artist sought to "elevate" them to the ideal.

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When in the 1930s Jacob Kainen turned up weekly at 36 Union Square to pose for Arshile Gorky, he was always amazed to see that Gorky had scraped and sanded his portrait down. "I want the surface smooth, like glass," Gorky explained. The many layers of pigment would, he said, give forms solidity and resonance. He also offered the young painter this advice: "Keep things flat. Don't over-model or you will lose the clear, flat shape. You don't want it round like a sausage." (1) Another time he cautioned Raphael Soyer to eliminate the highlight from the hair in a portrait Soyer ...

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