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Raoul Middleman (born 1935 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American painter known for his "provocatively prolific work--primarily traditional, including figure studies, landscapes, and still lifes--and for being a megawatt personality." 〔McCabe, Bret. "Pleasures of the Flesh." ''The Baltimore City Paper'' 8 April 2009. Print.〕 Middleman has been a member of the Maryland Institute College of Art faculty since 1961.〔Middleman, Raoul. "Your Wikipedia Page." Message to MacKenzie Peck. 8 May 2012. E-mail.〕 In a 2009 Baltimore City Paper article Bret McCabe described Middleman's paintings as featuring "... expressive strokes, a tight control over an earthy palette, a romantic tone slightly offset by a penetrating eye —becomes distinctive even if you haven’t seen them before, so strongly does he articulate his old-fashioned sensibility in his works.” 〔 American University Museum at the Katzen Center has described Middleman as a "Baltimore maestro () nudes are not pretty—they are sagging, dimpled, and real. His cityscapes reveal the underbelly of post-industrial rot, his narrative paintings give contemporary life to his personal obsessions. They are intelligent, messy, and utterly masterful." 〔American University Museum at the Katzen Center. "Raoul Middleman: City Limits." American.edu. American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center. Web. 9 May 2012. "Other artists would look at the relatively undramatic landscape of this region and respond with quiet paintings, but Middleman sees all of nature as being animated. If anything, the countryside is so inherently full of life that animals, people, and buildings are usually no more than blips on the horizon." Giuliano continues to say, "Middleman's theatrical and somewhat claustrophobic portraits remain firmly within a studio environment; when he goes to the country, people pretty much drop from the scene. It's as if the landscape itself is so completely exposed that placing a female nude out there would be redundant." 〔Giuliano, Mike. "Wild World: Raoul Middleman's Raw, Reckless Recent Work at C. Grimaldis." The City Paper () 14 March 2001, Arts sec. Print.〕 Paintings by Raoul Middleman can be found in private and corporate collections such as Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; National Academy of Design, NY; New York Public Library, NY; and Syracuse University, NY.〔C. Grimaldis Gallery. RAOUL MIDDLEMAN Custer’s Last Stand & Other Painterly Obsessions. C. Grimaldis Gallery. C. Grimaldis Gallery. Web. The C. Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland has represented Raoul Middleman since 1977.〔Grimaldis, Constantine. Personal interview. 26 April 2012.〕 ==Education== 1959 *Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1961 *Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, New York 1960 *Skowhegan Summer School, Skowhegan, Maine 1955 *B.A. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Raoul Middleman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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