Why I Hate Modern Art
By Eli Levin
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Eli Levin
Eli Levin, the son of novelist Meyer Levin, is known for his paintings of Santa Fe night life. He has run art galleries, written art reviews and taught art history. He hosts two artist’s gatherings, a drawing group since 1969 and the Santa Fe Etching Club since 1980. Levin studied painting with Raphael Soyer, George Grosz and Robert Beverly Hale, among others, and has Master’s degrees from Wisconsin University and St. John’s College.
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Why I Hate Modern Art - Eli Levin
WHY I HATE
MODERN ART
© 2013 by Eli Levin
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Why I hate modern art / by Eli Levin.
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1. Modernism (Art) 2. Art movements. I. Title.
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Preface
The Education of a Realist Artist
My parents and stepparents were concerned with culture. They all encouraged me to express myself, and I painted a lot as a child.
When I was in junior high school, my father rented an apartment from an analyst who kept the front room for his office. In the entranceway, his waiting room, there were Art News magazines dating back about ten years. I poured over them.
After school, I went to the 96th Street Library and sat on the floor in front of the shelves of art books. Every page with a reproduction was hand-stamped with the library’s logo, sometimes right on the image.
I went to Music and Art High School in New York City. This school provided an exceptionally broad grounding, a better art education than most I’ve experienced since.
I took drawing classes outside of school, evenings and weekends. Friday nights I went to Art Students League classes given by John Groth. We drew from the nude. Also, we always carried sketchbooks. Groth wanted us to do at least five drawings a day. I filled twenty of these hundred-page books. In addition, we brought to class compositional studies on assigned subjects, such as turmoil, harmony, a fight, love. From these studies and Groth’s comments, we learned the basics of composition and illustration.
Most of Groth’s students were adults. The only other teenage student was Robert Smithson, who later became a famous Earth Artist. He and I were the best of friends. In 1955, Bob and I organized a Saturday drawing group with some of my fellow Music and Art students. We took turns modeling (clothed). Fifty years later, I sold two drawings of Bob to the National Portrait Gallery.
Many of my high school friends were the children of left-wing Jewish intellectuals. Visiting their homes I saw paintings and graphics by the Soyer brothers, Philip Evergood, David Burlick, Jack Levine, Ben Shahn; etchings by Käthe Kollwitz; lithos by Daumier. There were also reproductions of Modigliani, Soutine, Pascin, Chagall, Rivera, Orozco, Benton, Curry, Wood and Marsh.
My high school