Lorser Feitelson
dal 8/9/2005 al 23/12/2005
Segnalato da
8/9/2005
Lorser Feitelson
Louis Stern Fine Arts, Hollywood
The Kinetic Series. Â Works from 1916-192
The Kinetic Series  Works from 1916-192
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Louis Stern Fine Arts is pleased to present Lorser Feitelson: the Kinetic
Series  Works from 1916-1923. The exhibition opens on Saturday, September
10, with a reception from 5-9 pm and continues through Saturday, December
23, 2005.
It is hard to imagine Lorser Feitelson (1898Â1978) as being described in any
way other than kinetic. Throughout his life long full-throttle pursuit of
artistic expression, Feitelson digested and then incorporated schools,
styles, training and trends with remarkable specificity and success. Even
in these earliest works, executed between his 18th and 24th birthdays and
preceded by a personal determination at age 15 to become a painter,
Feitelson displays a mature technique, a passion for new visual ideas and a
precocious understanding of his own artistic sensibilities.
The kinetic series strongly reflects Feitelson's exposure to European
Post-Impressionists (their Expressionist and Cubist works were first
exhibited in New York and seen by Feitelson at the Armory¹s International
Exhibition of Modern Art in 1913). Working in oil, usually executed on
carton or board, Feitelson re-interprets the figure drawing. Repeated lines
capture not only the form itself but also the feeling of movement innate in
the form. Black outlines are echoed in adjacent mauve lines then diffused
with a mottled wash of earthy browns and greens. With meticulous attention
to the fluid lines of the body, Feitelson¹s figures seem to breathe and/or
gesture. Even in the simplest oil pastel and pencil sketches, Feitelson
manages to convey a Cubist sensibility within the context of a
conventionally observed drawing and his model¹s lusciously curving hip.
In surveying the elegant sensuality and vigor of this early work,
Feitelson's future as a celebrated instructor/practitioner of life drawing
and an exemplar of miraculously fleshly-centric hard edge paintings seems
predestined. Yet the greatest revelation of the brilliant accomplishment of
this early work is the knowledge that the artist not only Å’lived up to his
early promise, he surpassed it.
The gallery represents the estate of Lorser Feitelson and this exhibition
marks LSFA's second in a series of ongoing presentations of his work.
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Friday 10am  6pm; Saturday 11am  5pm.
Image. Lorser Feitelson (1898-1978), Leda (Study in Kinetics), 1919, oil on
carton, 16 x 20 inches.
Artists' Reception: Saturday, September 10, 5-9 PM
Louis Stern Fine Arts
9002 Melrose Avenue - West Hollywood
Gallery hours, Tuesday  Friday, 10am-6pm; Saturday, 11am-5pm