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personal vigor after years of ill health.
They resonate with joy in the artist’s chosen country surroundings, joy in the rarer but perhaps therefore even more precious pleasures of advancing years; and joy in the companionship of family and friends. Tb them maybe even the somewhat scurrilous titles attached to the paintings may make sense.
This reviewer feels more competent to judge the “sculpted” pieces in the show: the welded pieces of “found objects”, and the few “beasties” roughly carved from blocks of wild cherry firewood.
None of these pieces show the highest level of craftsmanship either in working the chisel on wood or the welding torch on rusty iron and steel. But there is a genuinely whimsical playfulness in the wooden animals, and in the man-sized “Sentinel” of steel, while the pieces titled “Brute” and “Parade” show a sense of the dramatic even of the foreboding clamor of war.
Word has it that the artist was persuaded to change the title of what now is called “Brute” from his original “Cowboy Goes to War”. It is obviously not everyone’s notion of art that it could or should speak critically to current political themes.
Titles are, of course, a tricky matter for artists striving for abstraction rather than representation. In the sculptures, Gerhard obviously has no trouble in that regard: “Lotus,
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