2009 Merchandise & Miscellaneous News Archives

Superman Painting

January 8, 2009: Philip Pearlstein's Superman Painting

The New York Times published an article yesterday titled "It Is What It Is: Portraits of the Human Figure," by Ken Johnson (Arts section, page C1) describing a new exhibit at the Montclair Art Museum, in New Jersey, of paintings by an artist named Philip Pearlstein.

The image of one of Pearlstein's paintings titled "Superman" (shown right) accompanied the article.

    Maybe the most remarkable early piece is an image of a bulgingly muscular Superman painted in a roiling Expressionist style. Part of a series of canvases from 1949 to 1952 that were based on cartoon characters, it is a curious anticipation of Pop Art, a road not taken for Mr. Pearlstein.

    In the late 1940s he and Andy Warhol were classmates at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University)... you can't help but wonder what kind of influence Mr. Pearlstein's "Superman" and similar paintings from that time might have had on Warhol.

You can read the full article at the New York Times website.



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