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Give me a reason al jackson5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() The results are too calm for parody and too self-secure for homage. His paintings-the subject of “Bob Thompson: Agony & Ecstasy,” the unmissable show at Rosenfeld, and another, “Bob Thompson: So Let Us All Be Citizens,” at 52 Walker-contain hundreds of motifs snatched from the Western canon, wedged into dense compositions, and coated in bright colors. There is no exact word for what Thompson does with the Old Masters. Too completely dependent on one or two sources.” Still-what perfect, Hollywood foreshadowing! Thompson’s art is often vague, deeply dependent on famous European sources, and yet impossible to mistake for anything but itself. ![]() Entire paragraphs are devoted to rambling quotations, and the professor’s feedback seems pretty fair: “Often vague. The paper itself, currently on display at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, is nothing special. God only knows what drove him, but I’d like to imagine that it was a B-minus on his college paper on Piero della Francesca. In the course of the previous eight years, he’d painted more than a thousand pictures: on average, one every three days. ![]() Bob Thompson died of a heroin overdose in 1966, a few weeks shy of his twenty-ninth birthday. ![]()
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