The Tempest: Prospero, Miranda and Ariel, 1976, oil on linen, 40 x 50, private collection
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ROSEMARIE BECK, 1923 - 2003 |
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The Tempest: Prospero, Miranda and Ariel, 1976, oil on linen, 40 x 50, private collection |
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| "Rosemarie Beck’s work was first and foremost formal. Always forming, constantly composing, she respected the whole. Every stroke or spot changed and challenged what had gone before. Choosing as themes the great classical narratives, she remade them as contemporary dramas of color and light." Martha Hayden, Rosemarie Beck Foundation | |
"Her grasp of “everything
moving to and through everything” has enabled her to orchestrate large and
spatially complex compositions while keeping a vitality of stroke and play
of light rippling over the entire surface. In this way she has become one of
the few painters of our time to treat grand themes in ambitious multifigure
compositions while satisfying a need both for abstract structure and for an
execution that embodies energy without being gratuitous."
Martica Sawin, Never Form but Forming,
Catalog, Rosemarie Beck, Paintings 1965-2001
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