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Chaet (1980), pp. 26, 29. "True, works by Zerbe, Bloom, and Levine were accepted within a very small circle of collectors in Boston...but I knew first hand that the younger artists exhibiting in Boston in the forties who were influenced by many 'modern' sources were accused of distorting traditional
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Art critic Robert Taylor, writing in 1979, suggested that the "Boston attitudes" derived from Bloom's and Levine's religious background. Having received their early art instruction in a religious community center, he reasoned, it was not surprising that their work would evince a certain respect for
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establishment and its emphasis on traditional techniques. Looking back on his days there, Arthur Polonsky recalled an unspoken agreement among his classmates that there was something missing from the "academic" paintings of the Boston School, on the one hand, and the sterile "geometric purism" of
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According to art historian Judith Bookbinder, "Boston figurative expressionism was both a humanist philosophy—that is, a human-centered and rationalist or classically oriented philosophy—and a formal approach to the handling of paint and space." Pamela Edwards Allara of the Fine Arts
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of Europe as well as anatomy and perspective. There was a strong emphasis on drawing. As their skills developed, many students adopted a figurative approach with the understanding that an artist was not a reporter. "We tormented the subject matter," Polonsky said. Many of their paintings were
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The rejection for the past ten years of naturalism or realism...has been so complete that gifted artists of a more representational persuasion, such as Ben Shahn, Jack Levine, Hyman Bloom, or Andrew Wyeth, seem like curiosities surviving from an almost forgotten
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tradition and discipline. Conversely, art historian Alfred Werner suggested in 1973 that Jewish immigrants fleeing oppression were freer to embrace modernism than other Americans because they were "less chained to a genteel tradition".
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Taylor (1979). "The 40s and 50s...saw the first indigenous style to emerge here this century—Boston Expressionism—a style generally dismissed by art historians of the '60s and '70s as backward-looking
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Bloom, Levine, and Zerbe influenced a second generation of painters, many of them first- or second-generation Jewish immigrants, and many of them students of Zerbe's at the museum school. In a 1947 photo taken by
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exhibition at MoMA, where they elicited both praise and indignation. One Boston critic denounced "The Last Supper" as "a footboard for the devil's bed". Aronson went on to direct the Fine Art Department at
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calls Boston Expressionism a belief system created in context: "It is the evidence of a consistent set of assumptions about the function of art, which has been molded by the city's cultural climate."
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In the forties, thanks in large part to Bloom and Levine and their New York successes, and to Zerbe's influence on his students, the art scene in Boston began to open up. National magazines such as
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In the 1930s, Boston was notoriously conservative when it came to the arts. Even slight abstraction or imaginative use of color was unacceptable to most Boston critics and collectors, including the
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were still seen as cutting-edge. In this atmosphere, modern artists in Boston received little encouragement locally, and had to look to New York for support. A few notable exceptions were the
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More recently, Boston-area exhibitions and the publication of several books and articles have generated some renewed interest. In 2005, Judith Bookbinder published a book on the subject,
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By the early 1950s, Bloom, Levine, and Zerbe and the artists they influenced had been dubbed the Boston Expressionists. Confusingly, they were also sometimes referred to as the
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Each of these three artists had his own style, yet they shared certain tendencies. They did not paint directly from observation, but from memory and imagination; as
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put it, they favored "the conceptual over the perceptual". Like the Abstract Expressionists, they rejected the photographic naturalism preferred by the Nazis; and,
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some newer artists on the other. Bloom, Levine, and Zerbe helped many of them find an alternative path. Zerbe introduced them not only to German artists such as
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One of the most successful artists to emerge from this group was David Aronson. In 1946 his "Trinity" and "The Last Supper" were included in Dorothy Miller's
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Hyman Bloom and Jack Levine, both key figures in the movement, shared similar roots. Both grew up in immigrant communities: Bloom in the slums of Boston's
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Another influential artist at the time was Karl Zerbe, a painter from Germany who had studied in Italy and whose early work had been condemned by the
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The kind of paintings Hitler liked were monumental portraits of German gods rendered with photographic naturalism. Reality was what you saw, not felt
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may have been a factor, given that the Boston Expressionists were predominantly Jewish. At the same time, the New York painters, influenced by the
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is an arts movement marked by emotional directness, dark humor, social and spiritual themes, and a tendency toward figuration strong enough that
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concerned with human suffering, rendered without the cool, ironic detachment that later seemed to become obligatory in treating such subjects.
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Despite these developments, many Boston collectors remained suspicious of modern art, and the Museum of Fine Arts remained unsupportive.
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Most commonly associated with emotionality, and the bold color choices and expressive brushwork of painters central to the movement like
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Back in the 1940s, Boston was a hotbed for modern art...Hyman Bloom and Jack Levine dominated the Boston art scene at the time.
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The three, like the movement as a whole, were known for their technical expertise. Like the Abstract Expressionists, they were
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magazine called Bloom "one of the most striking of U.S. Colorists," and Levine won a prize at an exhibit in the
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art critic Cate McQuaid wrote, "Boston Expressionism has always been luscious, bright, and deeply felt."
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To some extent, many of these young artists were outsiders at the museum school, with its links to the
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Chaet, Bernard (1980). "The Boston Expressionist School: A Painter's Recollections of the Forties".
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Tonelli, Edith (1990). "The Avant-Garde in Boston: The Experiment of the WPA Federal Art Project".
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Chaet called Bloom the link between Boston Expressionism and Abstract Expressionism. Bloom's
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Chaet (1980), p. 29. "The Museum of Fine Arts had a hands-off policy toward modern art."
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and by the immigrant, and often Jewish, experience, the movement originated in
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art classes as children, both won fine arts scholarships and trained at the
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Goodhue, Laura (2005). "Chapter 5: The German Artists Revitalize Boston".
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in New York. Together, they were referred to as "the bad boys of Boston."
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Creative Expressionism: An Imminent Clash as Experienced by Three Artists
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Capasso, Nicholas (2002). "Expressionism: Boston's Claim to Fame".
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Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism
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Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism
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is sometimes used as an alternate term to distinguish it from
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Boston Expressionism at the Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
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Gibran, Jean; French, Katherine; Giuliano, Charles (2014).
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Boston Expressionism: Hyman Bloom, Jack Levine, Karl Zerbe
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Origins of Boston Expressionism: The Artists' Perspective
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opened on Newbury Street, and hosted exchange shows with
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Later artists influenced by Boston Expressionism include
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Love Made Visible: Scenes from a Mostly Happy Marriage
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Love Made Visible: Scenes from a Mostly Happy Marriage
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in the 1950s, is sometimes included in this category.
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Boston Expressionism at the Childs Gallery, Boston MA
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Werner, Alfred (November 1973). "Ghetto Graduates".
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Index

Boston Figurative Expressionism
abstract expressionism
German Expressionism
Boston
Hyman Bloom
Jack Levine
Karl Zerbe
Harold Tovish
silverpoint
Joyce Reopel

West End
South End
settlement house
Fogg Museum
Denman Ross
German Expressionism
Chagall
Soutine
Museum of Modern Art
Dorothy Miller
Metropolitan Museum

Nazis
degenerate
School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Max Beckmann
Oskar Kokoschka
Boston School
Bernard Chaet

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