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    Why I Hate Modern Art
    Why I Hate Modern Art
    Why I Hate Modern Art
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    Why I Hate Modern Art

    By Eli Levin

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    For over 100 years Modern Art has received almost universal praise. The author Eli Levin takes exception to this received wisdom. Mr. Levin is of the opinion that fine art has been in accelerating decline for a century and a half. He follows the changes in style from Courbet to Warhol, analyzing the works of well-known artists and pointing to a loss of technical ability, visualization and human concern. The author discerns a pattern in which each avant-garde movement rejects the previous one, with a relentless narrowing of options.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSunstone Press
    Release dateJan 28, 2016
    ISBN9781611394146
    Why I Hate Modern Art
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    Eli Levin

    Eli Levin, the son of novelist Meyer Levin, is known for his paintings of Santa Fe night life. He has run art galleries, written art reviews and taught art history. He hosts two artist’s gatherings, a drawing group since 1969 and the Santa Fe Etching Club since 1980. Levin studied painting with Raphael Soyer, George Grosz and Robert Beverly Hale, among others, and has Master’s degrees from Wisconsin University and St. John’s College.

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      Why I Hate Modern Art - Eli Levin

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      WHY I HATE

      MODERN ART

      © 2013 by Eli Levin

      All Rights Reserved.

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      P.O. Box 2321, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2321.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Levin, Eli, 1938-

      Why I hate modern art / by Eli Levin.

      pages cm

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-0-86534-967-4 (softcover : alk. paper)

      1. Modernism (Art) 2. Art movements. I. Title.

      N6465.M63L48 2013

      709.04--dc23

      2013028527

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      Preface

      The Education of a Realist Artist

      My parents and stepparents were concerned with culture. They all encouraged me to express myself, and I painted a lot as a child.

      When I was in junior high school, my father rented an apartment from an analyst who kept the front room for his office. In the entranceway, his waiting room, there were Art News magazines dating back about ten years. I poured over them.

      After school, I went to the 96th Street Library and sat on the floor in front of the shelves of art books. Every page with a reproduction was hand-stamped with the library’s logo, sometimes right on the image.

      I went to Music and Art High School in New York City. This school provided an exceptionally broad grounding, a better art education than most I’ve experienced since.

      I took drawing classes outside of school, evenings and weekends. Friday nights I went to Art Students League classes given by John Groth. We drew from the nude. Also, we always carried sketchbooks. Groth wanted us to do at least five drawings a day. I filled twenty of these hundred-page books. In addition, we brought to class compositional studies on assigned subjects, such as turmoil, harmony, a fight, love. From these studies and Groth’s comments, we learned the basics of composition and illustration.

      Most of Groth’s students were adults. The only other teenage student was Robert Smithson, who later became a famous Earth Artist. He and I were the best of friends. In 1955, Bob and I organized a Saturday drawing group with some of my fellow Music and Art students. We took turns modeling (clothed). Fifty years later, I sold two drawings of Bob to the National Portrait Gallery.

      Many of my high school friends were the children of left-wing Jewish intellectuals. Visiting their homes I saw paintings and graphics by the Soyer brothers, Philip Evergood, David Burlick, Jack Levine, Ben Shahn; etchings by Käthe Kollwitz; lithos by Daumier. There were also reproductions of Modigliani, Soutine, Pascin, Chagall, Rivera, Orozco, Benton, Curry, Wood and Marsh.

      My high school

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