Capturing life on the CTA
Critic Jerry Saltz was perhaps the first to articulate a dichotomy in figurative painting between the cool, clean portraits of Alex Katz and the clumsily portrayed buffoons of Alice Neel. If there is an equator between these poles, it is the work of Peter Broitman, who indulges Katz’s stylistic bravura without toning down his Neel-like […]