Artist Will Barnet's First Retrospective At Age 100
Submitted by Steve on September 19, 2011
From Huffington Post Arts blog:
The art world can be a fickle beast. A young artist may find themselves rapidly ascending to the top only to feel the sting of Warhol's '15 minutes of fame' after they drift back into obscurity. For New York painter, Will Barnet, this is a phenomenon that he has never had to experience. Barnet will be getting his first retrospective show at the National Academy Museum in New York City at the age of 100.
The retrospective, which opens Friday, will showcase his peculiar trajectory, beginning with his period of social realism, to abstraction, to more figurative styles and interestingly enough, back to abstraction in more recent years.