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Tom,
Thank you for a very relevant post. I've had the pleasure of spending a lot of time with Burt Silverman - I wrote two articles on him, one for the ASOPA magazine and one for American Artist, and have drawn and painted in his classes at his invitation many a time when I lived in New York. I completely agree with your evaluation of his work and his thought.
Do you see his paintings at ARC? Maybe his brand of realism, truth and expression is considered too quirky, not 'safe' enough. I believe that certain forms of painting power can be threatening to individuals bent on espousing a certain party line based on 'good art' and 'bad art' - again, this idiocy against modernism proclaimed by people who ought to know better. God deliver us from such myopic culture philistines.
I will also be taking Burt's workshop organized by the Atlanta Portrait Society in November. Burt Silverman is, in my opinion, besides a great artist, the most intelligent, articulate, and inspiring teacher of drawing and painting I have ever been exposed to.
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