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Exhibit subjects remotely unfamiliar
By Jim Williams
A portrait, I think, can be successful in two ways
It can portray the subject accurately and with insight
Or it can be interesting in itself. Or both.
Or, in the case of several of Pavel Tchelitchev's works
neither.
Tchelitchev's portraits, at Sheldon through April 2
are of 1930s figures. Most are in ink or pencil, with a
scattering of other media.
thursday, march 16, 1978
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Part of the problem with the exhibit is the remote
nature of the subjects. You can look at a portrait of
Farrah Whatshername and compare it to the 46 quad
rillion other renderings you've seen-but who the devil is
Edith Sitwell, anyway, or La Pavlovna?
Because of this, Tchelitchev's works must stand on
their artistic merits. Several are up to the challenge.
Tchelitchev had the knack of defining facial planes
dramatically with ink. Youra Gral, 1933, Portrait of a
Young Man, 1935, and Cecil Beaton, 1935 are the best
examples. Here Tchelitchev was working with subjects
having dynamic, interestingly shaped features-features he
could define with a swish of inkwash, simplifying and
intensifying the effect.
Two works in gouache are more complex, more
'artistic," with good color control and depth blended
into dark, murky glimpses of Robert Cluzan, 1932,
and a Veiled Woman, 1934.
And I couldn't resist the simple charm of Lady Diana
Abdy, 1937, an unassuming ink drawing that made me
wish 1 could have met the original.
But then there are all these other things in the exhibit,
unpleasant-looking renderings of folks with crooked
eyes and misshapen heads. There's nothing wrong with
these things if they're done for a reason. They're also
acceptable in quick sketches, although they would seem
out of place in more deliberate work.
And that brings up the other major defect of this
exhibit -there's no way to tell Tchelitchev's intentions,
because there's no biographical information with the
exhibit at all. Just these lopsided sketches, with no way
to tell if their maker was just a sloppy craftsman who
knew the right people, an artist with a special and unique
vision, or something in between.
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