Human Figures, Broken and Restored, in the Work of One Artist

From: Forward | Date: March 19, 2004| Author: Grosz, David | Copyright information


Forward

03-19-2004

Paintings by the German artist David Stern announce themselves with the
subtlety of a lion's roar. A quick glance reveals an awesome abundance of
paint: gummy impasto surfaces inches thick, rough and uneven like a
tempest-torn sea. This first impression is so strong, in fact, that it is
not uncommon to see no more in a Stern canvas than a swirling sea of
abstraction. But with time the patient viewer will discover human bodies
e...

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