Easily some of the strongest genre painting I’ve seen in a very long time. Harmonic, formally coherent, quietly brilliant. Why work like this doesn’t get a bigger audience is one of those by products, I think, of the contemporary scene, where the spectacle of viewing the art often seems more important than the substance of the work itself. Thanks for showing this, I’m very glad to have stumbled onto your channel.
Love her painting - which despite their figurative subject, the paintings demonstrate an abstract use of color and especilly love her use of palette - very sophisticated painter And especially grateful to James Kalm - 👍
Another great showing!👍 Great work! Can't help it, especially liked the flowers painting. Something about the white petals contrasting the surrounding colors. Lovely. Kate,.... Thank you.😔🙂👍
Hi James, Steven Harvey ALWAYS shows good artists and I love it when you film them. Susan's a very painterly painter, a wonderful yet subtle colorist and the Porter and Braque connections are spot on. I think that Susan and I studied together on LI in the early 70s and I've got to google her and find out. Thank you James and thank you Kate.
Yes sculptor3d, I wasn't familiar with her work, and this was her debut here in New York, so it's great to discover talented painters. Steven Harvey has a good eye, and an encyclopedic knowledge of painting history.
I like " Coffee Outside " because I never thought of tree leaves curling up and looking like old paint peeling off of a building. But there you have it ... a connection which perhaps can only be best expressed via painting. Very nice !
I've loved her work for a while. It's both abstract and representational. Porter looked at Vuillard, and she obviously looks at both. Her work is unique though. I'm interested in the flatness of the picture plane, yet she alludes to space. I love her use of positive and negative shapes.
Thanks James, totally Fairfield Porter territory, and a good place to be if you like paint, would be awesome to see a Fairfield Porter review one day , am living atop a mountain in Ireland so no chance ill ever run into one
Such great quality to Susan's work , I enjoyed picking out the European influences, Vuillard's Nabis palette, with Bonnard's intimiste late Le Cannet's paintings. perhaps also little of the USA and Diebenkorn no? Thanks as always James and Kate, salut.
I like her work. Interesting and fresh approach to the subject - interiors and social settings. In terms of subject, she reminds more of some of Alex Katz's work. With a strong presence of women in a relax social setting of maybe the cottage. I agree with you on her use of mark making, very straight and flat; if she pushed it a little further would be more abstract. Solid work. Thanks James and Kate.
A lot of her paintings are very restful and I really like her grey-green palette. But I found the loud window crossbars too intrusive. Thank you for this.
Yes please hold the camera a short moment still on the paintings you choose to talk about - its very interesting to follow your art walks and talks - but it would be wonderfull with a short stillness before a painting
Good paintings. If I had to offer criticism, I'd say they feel a little fragmented. I can almost imagine the dog was told to sit there for another photograph, then the various elements pieced together over time and then maybe each section was painted separately. Which is fine, a lot of art is staged, carefully composed, not spontaneous. But you have to consider the whole picture together too, at a distance. Maybe there was a special, bright moment in time, but it's pulled apart in different directions. Maybe the various elements are too compartmentalized without enough to unify them across the canvas. (You could say that's a metaphor for family life, but was that the artist's intention?) Looking at (10:19) again, it's almost like a progression through time from left to right, with the girl on the right looking back through time to reflect on a certain conversation. (But then why the dog?) While that's interesting, there's nothing holding this painting together from left to right, in terms of the composition. The trompe loeil window was something else entirely. I felt shut out. Not in a profound way. What I did like was the little plant (9:39) in front of the window. It made me wonder how trompe loeil and still-life could coexist in the same painting. Seems like that could go somewhere.
Easily some of the strongest genre painting I’ve seen in a very long time. Harmonic, formally coherent, quietly brilliant. Why work like this doesn’t get a bigger audience is one of those by products, I think, of the contemporary scene, where the spectacle of viewing the art often seems more important than the substance of the work itself. Thanks for showing this, I’m very glad to have stumbled onto your channel.
Love her painting - which despite their figurative subject, the paintings demonstrate an abstract use of color and especilly love her use of palette - very sophisticated painter
And especially grateful to James Kalm - 👍
Another great showing!👍
Great work!
Can't help it, especially liked the flowers painting. Something about the white petals contrasting the surrounding colors.
Lovely.
Kate,.... Thank you.😔🙂👍
Hi James, Steven Harvey ALWAYS shows good artists and I love it when you film them. Susan's a very painterly painter, a wonderful yet subtle colorist and the Porter and Braque connections are spot on. I think that Susan and I studied together on LI in the early 70s and I've got to google her and find out. Thank you James and thank you Kate.
Yes sculptor3d, I wasn't familiar with her work, and this was her debut here in New York, so it's great to discover talented painters. Steven Harvey has a good eye, and an encyclopedic knowledge of painting history.
James, I will be in NYC the week of August 19th for my birthday. It would be quite a treat to run into you around town.
Hey Terminal, I think I'm going to be in New England then, Sorry...
Do appreciate these videos. Very seductive work these paintings
Love this artist, and really enjoy your commentary. Thanks.
Excelentes pinturas,un placer verlas.gracias.
I like " Coffee Outside " because I never thought of tree leaves curling up and looking like old paint peeling off of a building. But there you have it ... a connection which perhaps can only be best expressed via painting. Very nice !
I've loved her work for a while. It's both abstract and representational. Porter looked at Vuillard, and she obviously looks at both. Her work is unique though. I'm interested in the flatness of the picture plane, yet she alludes to space. I love her use of positive and negative shapes.
Nice paint - and paintings. There's a lot to look at in these pictures - will try to see the show this weekend. Thanks for the video.
I really like Susan Lichtman's work - she knows how to see light and shade, and paint it.
Thanks James, totally Fairfield Porter territory, and a good place to be if you like paint, would be awesome to see a Fairfield Porter review one day , am living atop a mountain in Ireland so no chance ill ever run into one
Beautiful work. Love the palette.
lovely. detect a little vuillard influence in the colors. another great video.
Yes, I don't know if by chance or not but they look like an "updated" Vuillard's painting...
Such great quality to Susan's work , I enjoyed picking out the European influences, Vuillard's Nabis palette, with Bonnard's intimiste late Le Cannet's paintings. perhaps also little of the USA and Diebenkorn no? Thanks as always James and Kate, salut.
Yes, a very good show.
Very interesting figurative painter that have a strong abstract feeling of all the every day images - - they are truly very sensual
BREATHTAKING!!
I really like Susan's work! Very inspiring. And I'm so glad to follow your videos. Thank you!
You're welcome...
I like her work. Interesting and fresh approach to the subject - interiors and social settings. In terms of subject, she reminds more of some of Alex Katz's work. With a strong presence of women in a relax social setting of maybe the cottage. I agree with you on her use of mark making, very straight and flat; if she pushed it a little further would be more abstract. Solid work. Thanks James and Kate.
As well as modulating colour well, she is skilled in using tone. Fine and incisive evocations.
At the 10:26 painting I also see Degas' influence. Great review, thanks James!
Thank you Kate
A lot of her paintings are very restful and I really like her grey-green palette. But I found the loud window crossbars too intrusive. Thank you for this.
one request, hold camera still for the whole painting for a moment, do love the explorations
Just a suggestion, that's what the pause button is for.
Oh yes, of course, I just wanted one point with whole painting to.pause on. still great. wish I could get to the show on time!!!
She and Lois Dodd! Genius is alive.
nice talk about paint and structure! thank you.
Could anyone tell me what is the name of opening song ?
very nice I love it
Thank you for video👍👍👍
300 baby!
Good painting is good painting!
Nice stuff. Reminds me of the great David Park.
Great video,
www.painters-table.com/blog/paintings-place-susan-lichtman-steven-harvey
jameskalm nice review.
yes Fairfield Porter, and Bonnard
Yes Bonnard and Vuillard...
Yes please hold the camera a short moment still on the paintings you choose to talk about - its very interesting to follow your art walks and talks - but it would be wonderfull with a short stillness before a painting
Good paintings. If I had to offer criticism, I'd say they feel a little fragmented. I can almost imagine the dog was told to sit there for another photograph, then the various elements pieced together over time and then maybe each section was painted separately. Which is fine, a lot of art is staged, carefully composed, not spontaneous. But you have to consider the whole picture together too, at a distance. Maybe there was a special, bright moment in time, but it's pulled apart in different directions. Maybe the various elements are too compartmentalized without enough to unify them across the canvas. (You could say that's a metaphor for family life, but was that the artist's intention?)
Looking at (10:19) again, it's almost like a progression through time from left to right, with the girl on the right looking back through time to reflect on a certain conversation. (But then why the dog?) While that's interesting, there's nothing holding this painting together from left to right, in terms of the composition.
The trompe loeil window was something else entirely. I felt shut out. Not in a profound way. What I did like was the little plant (9:39) in front of the window. It made me wonder how trompe loeil and still-life could coexist in the same painting. Seems like that could go somewhere.
Out of the top drawer.
She likes that yellow-purple complement.
צבעוניות מרתקת ומלטפת, אלגנטית והנחת הצבע רגישה
and David Park
I'm so glad you recognized David Park in these paintings ...no one thinks about him these days .....
It's so nice not to hear all the background chatter of so-called "viewers".
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