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Indepth Arts News:
"THE FOUNTAINS - Lisa Zwerling"
2009-10-06 until 2009-10-31
First Street Gallery
New York, NY,
USA United States of America
Lisa Zwerling's large painting The Fountain of Youth reflects her interest in age and aging. Lucas Cranach's Fountain of Youth in Berlin was the inspiration; however, in her version, Zwerling uses models, young and old, of both sexes. Cranach has the men carrying only old women to the Fountain. In Cranach's world the men need no improvement, but old women definitely need rejuvenation. In Zwerling's painting, both sexes take the plunge.
The Fountain of Youth is dedicated to the memory of the five Robinson brothers:
the artist's father David and her four uncles Samuel, Julius, Irving, and
Ephraim. Irving appears in The Fountain of Youth as the old man carried by the
young man on the far left of the painting.
The show includes many other fountain paintings. Battlefront Fountain and
Crash at the Fountain are smoke filled visions of war zones. The gentler
images are most often done directly from Paris fountains, but frequently the
fountains are composites from Paris, Versailles, Moscow, Peterhof, Salzburg,
and Rome.
Lisa Zwerling thanks the Pollock-Krasner Foundation for their generous third
grant.
View more of this exhibition.
Visit the First Srteet Gallery's POrtfolio at absolutearts.com http://galleries.absolutearts.com/firststreetgallery
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