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THE AESTHETIC REALISM UNDERSTANDING OF ART

The class I tell of took place at the Whitney Museum exhibition Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts, conducted by Marcia Rackow, Aesthetic Realism teacher of art.  Seventy quilts, astounding in their variety and ingenuity, made by descendants of slaves in rural Gee's Bend, Alabama (1920s - 1990s).... >> more

Len Bernstein's work speaks to the observer about the connectedness of the human experience. Inspired by Eli Siegel, critic and founder of the philosophy of Aesthetic Realism, Bernstein's photographs capture the essence of Aesthetic Realism, as "The deepest desire of all of us is to like the world on an honest basis." >> more

Wonder and 'Matter-of-Fact' Meet or The Imagination of Beatrix Potter by Marcia Rackow, Journal of the Print World (Fall 2002)

"The Surprising & Abiding Opposites" at the Terrain Gallery by Carrie Wilson, Journal of the Print World (Winter 2002)

The Opposites -- 2001: The Print. A Review and Some History by Alma Vincent, Journal of the Print World (Spring 2001)

What Does a Person Deserve? The Answer Found in a Great Photograph of Dorothea Lange by David M. Bernstein

Confrontation 2 by Chaim Koppelman from National Academy exhibition,"Treasures Revealed: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Works on Paper" / Museum and School of Fine Arts

Three Photographers at the Terrain Gallery by Alma Vincent in The Journal of the Print World (Winter, 2000)

Our Selves Are Aesthetic! -- About Monet's Autumn Effect at Argenteuil and Aesthetic Realism Consultations -- by Ruth Oron

Power and Tenderness in Men and in Picasso's Minotauromachy  by Chaim Koppelman

Aesthetic Realism and Picasso's Guernica: for Life by Dorothy Koppelman

Bruegel's Peasant Wedding Celebrates the True Purpose of Marriage by Ruth Oron

We Can Learn about Ourselves from Winslow Homer's The Gulf Streamby Daniel Reiss

The Dark Angels - Chaim Koppelman's  National Academy prize-winning drawing

Chaim Koppelman: A Selection of Works on Paper Show at the Beatrice Conde Gallery, New York, NY: Review by Marcia Rackow 

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