NATIONAL ACADEMY
Museum and School of Fine Arts
1083 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
January 9th - March 7th, 1999
"Many of the most important American printmakers of the twentieth century
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true masters in both an aesthetic and technical sense are included in the
exhibition."
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We are proud to reproduce Confrontation, 2 by Chaim Koppelman.
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The following statement is on the museum wall accompanying the print:
| Chaim Koppelman has been deeply affected by the relationship of opposites in art and life as taught by Aesthetic Realism, the philosophy he began to study with its founder, the poet and critic Eli Siegel, in 1940. Regarding Confrontation, 2 the artist has explained: "This print is a self-portrait about my outer self and inner self looking at each other. I asked my wife, Dorothy, to photograph me in profile, leaning forward intensely. I enlarged the photo and etched it on the same plate with an emerging figure which I drew looking just as intently at me. I wanted a tension of opposites as the two sides confront each other across that bar of light asking: Who are you?." |
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Koppelman is on the faculty of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation.
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