PASSION AND PARADOX
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The present book is intended as a tribute principally to Stanislaw Frenkiel's achievements as an artist; but so interwoven were these with, for example, his literary attainments and his pedagogical ideas that some discussion of such other areas of activity could hardly have been omitted. The book has been developed from an original intention to reproduce a substancial number of paintings accompanied by a shortish critical essay. The essay, somewhat modified, appears as part III of the book. Though modest in scope (for reasons explained below), the book now represents a considerable extension of the original idea. Whilst it was at first intended to restrict the discussion to painting, it soon became clear that dispite the artist's contention that the pictorial language of line and that of colour was, for him, antithetical, his struggle to reconcile these elements was of central importance to his work. Therefore his drawings (particularly the Beirut series) and his etchings (a medium he had explored more fully in recent years) have been given a more prominent place than anticipated.....Anthony Dyson 2001 |
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