Burkhardt’s
Basel
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
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It appears to be a still life
on a table built up out of the background into astonishing thicknesses of
paint to convey a plastic notion, or set of notions. Several of the elements
are mirrored in an acrylic sketch on paper by Herbert Creecy—a curious
coincidence which has no significance whatsoever, except that one might have
seen or imagined the other. |
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Amid the screeching Los
Angeles chatter, there is Burkhardt, who is a democrat. Nobody in a quandary
gets direct support instantaneously. Hitler in 1939, the blacklist in ’45,
bring out the painter’s arm. He did not brook the
wastrels of Vietnam, nor the salesmen of Desert
Storm. And, very naturally as you
will observe, he was not looked on kindly in Los Angeles, where he was ahead
of everyone else, just keeping on his toes. |
