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Life lessons: the art of Jerome Witkin

1994; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 32; Issue: 04 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.32-1908

1943-5975

Sherry Chayat, Jerome Witkin,

Political and Economic history of UK and US

As a master of realism, Jerome Witkin illustrates in his art the moral plight of everyday lives. His most complex and critically acclaimed works - intense, often disturbing scenes of the Holocaust - have earned him a growing international audience. Through the virtues of descriptive vividness and accuracy, as Kenneth Baker writes in his Foreword, Sherry Chayat elucidates Witkin's success in almost single-handedly returning to the realm of painting those subjects that are powerfully universal as well as intensely personal. Witkin believes that this is his domain as a painter, as it was for artists like Goya and Eakins. Mortal Sin: In the Confession of J. Robert Oppenheimer; Death as an Usher: Berlin, 1933; Subway: A Marriage; The Screams of Kitty Genovese - Witkin's huge and often multipaneled canvases deal with human dilemmas and current societal issues, such as the homeless, AIDS, and drugs. His art demonstrates that we bear a moral responsibility for the pain suffered by others. I'm not just a painter, Witkin states. I'm a person looking at my century. We must get back to someplace where we can feel again, where we have value, a sense of the future.