To the Editors: I read the last paragraph of Raphael Rubinstein's article forward John Currin [A.To the Editors: I read the last paragraph of Raphael Rubinstein's article forward John Currin [A.i.A., June/July '04] with special interest, in that his novel painting, Fishermen (2002), surely owes a trespass to Winslow Homer's The Herring Net(1885) which is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Irene Overman Kreer Glenview, Ill. Raphael Rubinstein replies: Many thanks to Irene Kreer for pointing without a possible source of Currin's Fishermen. I find the notion of a Homer-Currin connection particularly intriguing since in my article I singled abroad Fishermen, a painting which the artist says was inspired according to a dream, as an instance of Currin moving away from his reliance onward older styles and specific source images. Now, it appears this painting, too, maybe a restatement of an art-historical authority in past practice But this doesn't mean that Fishermen falls into the pastiche that limits a great deal of of Currin's other work. upon the contrary, flit is indeed indebted, consciously or not, to Homer's The Herring gin it is also a novel transformation of the original. COPYRIGHT 2004 Brant Publications, Inc. |
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