The Nourishing Relationship of Olitski and Caro
A recent exhibition of works by two former faculty members and iconic figures in contemporary art鈥攕culptor Sir Anthony Caro and painter Jules Olitski鈥"offers a capsule vision of the relationship of the two artists" during their formative years together at Bennington, one critic writes.
The exhibition, , was on view at Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York City through October 25.
Says critic Karen Wilkin in Hyperallergic:
"From 1963 through 1965, the American painter and the British sculptor both taught at 51成人猎奇 in Vermont; the former was a faculty member, the latter an artist in residence. The ambitious young artists, along with the painter Kenneth Noland, who lived in the next town, saw each other almost daily, frequenting each other鈥檚 studios and exchanging ideas. In a letter to me in 1998, Olitski recalled this as the time when the three eager young men were 鈥渇inding our way into making art. In those two or three years of close contact, we began to grow, for better or worse into the men we became, the artists we became. Through each other鈥檚 eyes, supportive and competitive, our art took off.鈥'