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The show is a collection of 34 prints and drawings by Eric Fischl, who is widely considered to be one of the most important American artists of the last 30 years. Most of the prints, drawings, and watercolor and oil paintings on paper in the exhibition are studies of the human figure. They represent Fischl's exploration of human relationships through depictions of male and female figures in various scenarios, from studio settings to the mixing of seemingly unrelated figures within a composition.
In Bad Boy, renowned American artist Eric Fischl has written a penetrating, often searing exploration of his coming of age as an artist, and his search for a fresh narrative style in the highly charged and competitive New York art world in the 1970s and 1980s. With such notorious and controversial paintings as Bad Boy and Sleepwalker, Fischl joined the front ranks of America artists, in a high-octane downtown art scene that included Andy Warhol, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, and others. It was a world of fashion, fame, cocaine and alcohol that for a time threatened to undermine all that Fischl had achieved. In an extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Fischl discusses the impact of his...
"Over the past three decades, Eric Fischl (born 1948) has infused American figurative painting with fresh edginess and a new vocabulary of suburban disquiet. Richly illustrated with 148 works of art--including photographs, drawings, prints, sculptures and paintings from 1979 to the present--this companion catalogue to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and San Jose Museum of Art's 2012 exhibition "Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting" explores Fischl's rigorous and iterative creative process as well as his exemplary readiness to embrace new technological changes in the service of his art"-- From Alibris website (viewed November 9, 2012).
Collection of 200 of Eric Fischl's beach-inspired works including paintings, photographs, watercolors, charcoals with a short story by American novelist A. M. Homes.
"Hopper is simply a bad painter, but if he were a better one, he would probably not be such a great artist." Clement Greenberg.