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Leon Berkowitz is a manipulator
of color, an artist with a bent
toward the sensuous and the
seductive, a man who produces
paintings that literally leap with
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one to return to color what it
rightfully claims in nature, its
illusion to depth: "As long as color
is seen through an atmoshpere, it
can never be flat. This idea of
flatness in color is only a concept in
mind, like the dot or line-a false
model of what is real, something I
was taught to see."
Berkowitz has been experimenting
with the effects of
color since the late forties, but it is
only within the last few years that
his paintings have taken on a new
vitality, and that in turn has incresed
his exposure nationally.
Yet Berkowitz has been active in
a regional sense lor quue some
time. In the Washington area he
founded, along with his wife Ida,
the Workshop Center of the Arts in
1947. The center became one of
many factors that helped to unify
artists in the capital city towards a
more cohesive direction. Later,
this same group of artists became
known as the Washington Color
School, due to similar concerns
over the effect and function of the
colored image.
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one of the founding fathers of the
Washington Color School, he was
never considered one of the more
important artists. Heavy-weights
like Morris Louis and Kenneth
Noland were reaping the
recognition.
That was back in the 50s. Now in
the late 70s, Leon Berkowitz seems
to be going tnrougn a late
flowering of sorts, and his new
show at McKissick is expressive of
both a new confidence and a
stronger originality.
Technique certainly has
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fectivness, which in itself creates J
considerably different results <
than most other color field painters 1
achieved. He begins by extremely J
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point that, the pigments of color i
literally swim in the medium with i
no possibility of opaqueness. The
paint becomes opaque only after <
numerous applications of the <
diluted formula, with the end <
result being deeply intense colors i
that beautifully blend from one i
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happens with juxtaposing of two I
contrasting colors (mostly i
primaries), each so independently i
intense, that a third aura of
another color appears, when in !
fact it is not truly there
The paintings also function quite
differendly at different distances, 1
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dui mosi enecuveiy wnen one s
entire field of vision is consumed in
color.
This of course makes evident the
crucial importance of scale, being
that the larger words function
considerably better than the
smaller pieces. It is without <
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show, for it is dispairingly difficult 1
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Another inconsistency that must
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>eing that some are framed and
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nit nebulous space. In these
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ruly unified vision, other obvious,
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The show will continue through
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iVatercolor Competition will be
iccepting work Oct. 10 at the
Columbia Museum of Art depot,
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