{"id":33,"date":"2014-04-25T00:31:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T00:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solowey.com\/exhibitions\/?p=33"},"modified":"2017-01-16T18:47:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T18:47:50","slug":"an-intimate-view-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solowey.com\/exhibitions\/an-intimate-view-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 An Intimate View"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AN INTIMATE VIEW: Small Paintings and Drawings by Ben Solowey\u00a0<\/i>featured\u00a0a never-before-assembled collection of small works by Ben Solowey.\u00a0<\/span>Small paintings give viewers a more personal experience, inviting a closer, more discrete interaction with the work of art.\u00a0These works leave no barriers between artist and viewer.<\/p>\n

AN INTIMATE VIEW was<\/i>\u00a0the first exhibition to focus exclusively on Solowey\u2019s small paintings and drawings. Included in the exhibition were\u00a0oil paintings from virtually every part of his career, and almost every genre. The earliest work was\u00a0a 1925 self portrait that Solowey painted at the end of an eight-month European sojourn that belies the influences of the experience.<\/p>\n

There was a 1932 still life, Nasturtiums<\/i>, that is perhaps the most modern work he ever painted. Visitors could\u00a0contrast that with a late work, Summer Bouquet<\/i>, painted in the twilight of his life filled with flowers from his own garden.\u00a0There were\u00a0landscapes from France and Germany alongside landscapes from the Bucks County farmland surrounding Ben’s\u00a0Bedminster studio where the exhibition took\u00a0place.<\/p>\n

“Small paintings have virtues that grander, more awe-inspiring paintings cannot match,\u201d writes Florence Coman of the National Gallery of Art of small French paintings from the late 19th\u00a0<\/span>century. These works were an influence on Solowey. One only has to look at Manet still life and then a small 1965 oil of Ben\u2019s favorite flowers, Peonies<\/i>, to see the resonances between the two artists\u2019 work.\u00a0As the National Gallery\u2019s Coman writes, these intimate works \u201care more experimental, the perfect means for an artist to try different styles, techniques\u2026[and they] can showcase virtuoso brushwork that might be less prominent in a monumental painting.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

With our Second Studio devoted to the small works,\u00a0Ben\u2019s main studio featured\u00a0a new installation of Solowey oil paintings, drawings, and sculpture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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