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Drawings by Don Bachardy

Portraits of Robert Phillips by Don Bachardy

Walter Feldman
by Jason Lovvorn
Excerpt - "When an artist becomes complacent, he begins to be a manufacturer of sausages," Walter Feldman once noted. Complacency, however, has not been a problem for this artist during his long and varied career.

A painter since the age of 12, Feldman has never been so satisfied with his art that he stopped questioning, exploring, and experimenting. Subsequently, his work exhibits expertise in a variety of disciplines, from traditional painting to avant-garde book making. He is a printmaker, a painter, and a mosaicist. His media include the expected--graphite, ink, acrylics, oils. But Feldman’s pieces also utilize materials as diverse as eighteenth-century rag paper and space-age, thermoplastic adhesives. Now, about to begin his forty-sixth year as a professor of visual arts at Brown University, Feldman shows no signs of quelling his creative explorations. His art, like that of any responsive artist, continues to grow around an ever-changing vision. Yet at the same time, Walter Feldman’s work never loses sight of the essential connective elements that tie artist, artwork, and viewer into a communal matrix of humanity. More...

Southern Notebook of Art by Murray Dunlap

On Don Bachardy
by James P. White
Excerpt - I've repeatedly had the experience of having sittings with the people whom I'd been so impressed by in movies. It was fascinating. And, of course, it was very difficult. Because it was maybe 20, 25, 30 years later. So the people I'd loved as a child were already in middle age--or older. For instance, a portrait of Fred Astaire at 70 was difficult--because he didn't look like Fred Astaire of the '30's and I couldn't pretend that he did. I had to draw him as I saw him. And he was helpless too, because he couldn't help expecting to see the Fred Astaire image instead of a 70-year-old man.

That's tough. I often feel badly that I'm hurting the very people I adored, by being frank about how they look. But there's no way around it. I can't invent anything. Working from life means a devotion to what I see in life. I can't fake it. More...