Capturing life on the CTA

Critic Jerry Saltz was perhaps the first to articulate a dichotomy in figurative painting between the cool, clean portraiture of Alex Katz and Alice Neel’s clumsily rendered goofballs. If there’s an equator between these poles, it’s the oeuvre of Peter Broitman, who indulges himself in Katz’s stylistic bravura without tempering his Neel-esque psychic insights. It’s […]
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