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Leon Berkowitz

Leon Berkowitz (1911 - 1987) was active/lived in District Of Columbia.  Leon Berkowitz is known for Abstract, non-objective painting.

Leon Berkowitz: JACKSONVILLE ART MUSEUM, October 23 to November 23, 1980

Leon Berkowitz is a painter and philosopher and teacher. Any consideration of his paintings should be informed by awareness of the many facets of the artist, for those facets determine the way the paintings work as well as our reactions to them. Like the man, they are many-layered and obsessed with the search for meaning.

Meaning has been out of fashion for quite a while in abstract painting, but it is characteristic of Berkowitz that he has followed his own course, indifferent to the trends and fads of the period. The teacher and philosopher in Berkowitz may have supported the artist in this; the philosopher compelling the quest and the teacher revealing and interpreting its results. He has also avoided the restriction of vision and thought that result from the pursuit of systems or ideas, looking for meaning wherever he happened to be, and finding inspiration for painting in an astonishing variety   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9529 characters.]  Artist bio

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