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Born 1944. Known for: Monochromatic geometric line images, minimalism.
The following gallery review is from The New York Times, Weekend Arts section, Friday, January 3, 2014. Art in Review. Helmut Federle: The Ferner Paintings. By MARTHA SCHWENDENER. Published: January... Read full biography
The following gallery review is from The New York Times, Weekend Arts section, Friday, January 3, 2014. Art in Review. Helmut Federle: The Ferner Paintings. By MARTHA SCHWENDENER. Published: January 2, 2014. A handout accompanying this Peter Blum Gallery show recalls an anecdote from Giorgio Vasari... Read full biography
The following gallery review is from The New York Times, Weekend Arts section, Friday, January 3, 2014. Art in Review. Helmut Federle: The Ferner Paintings. By MARTHA SCHWENDENER. Published: January 2, 2014. A handout accompanying this Peter Blum Gallery show recalls an anecdote from Giorgio Vasari in his "Lives of the Artists," in which a papal envoy asks the early-Renaissance painter Giotto for an example of his work, and Giotto offered a drawing of a circle. Rather than censuring him for his... Read full biography
The following gallery review is from The New York Times, Weekend Arts section, Friday, January 3, 2014. Art in Review. Helmut Federle: The Ferner Paintings. By MARTHA SCHWENDENER. Published: January 2, 2014. A handout accompanying this Peter Blum Gallery show recalls an anecdote from Giorgio Vasari in his "Lives of the Artists," in which a papal envoy asks the early-Renaissance painter Giotto for an example of his work, and Giotto offered a drawing of a circle. Rather than censuring him for his arrogance, the pope and his courtiers declare — on the basis of the circle — that Giotto "surpassed in excellence all the other painters of his time.". Helmut Federle's "The Ferner Paintings," circles drawn in vegetable oil on small raw-linen... Read full biography
The following gallery review is from The New York Times, Weekend Arts section, Friday, January 3, 2014. Art in Review. Helmut Federle: The Ferner Paintings. By MARTHA SCHWENDENER. Published: January 2, 2014. A handout accompanying this Peter Blum Gallery show recalls an anecdote from Giorgio Vasari in his "Lives of the Artists," in which a papal envoy asks the early-Renaissance painter Giotto for an example of his work, and Giotto offered a drawing of a circle. Rather than censuring him for his arrogance, the pope and his courtiers declare — on the basis of the circle — that Giotto "surpassed in excellence all the other painters of his time.". Helmut Federle's "The Ferner Paintings," circles drawn in vegetable oil on small raw-linen canvases, are, as the handout implies, in conversation with art history: Giotto, Japan's enso (circle) calligraphers, Rembrand... Read full biography
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The following gallery review is from The New York Times, Weekend Arts section, Friday, January 3, 2014
Art in Review
Helmut Federle: The Ferner Paintings
By MARTHA SCHWENDENER
Published: January 2, 2014
A handout accompanying this Peter Blum Gallery show recalls an anecdote from Giorgio Vasari in his "Lives of the Artists," in which a papal envoy asks the early-Renaissance painter Giotto for an example of his work, and Giotto offered a drawing of a circle. Rather than censuring him for his arrogance, the pope and his courtiers declare — on the basis of the circle — that Giotto "surpassed in excellence all the other painters of his time."
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