Livshulz Family - Art of the Beautiful

Many of the pieces here also appeared in

 Misha's show from May, 2013

Here's a few that I don't remember:

Chaim's wonderful cityscape from the USSR

Chaim's portrait of his wife, Misha's mother.

Looks like it came from the  high Renaissance.

A down-to-earth variation on Titian. 

Here's a room of Jacob's paintings and Misha's sculptures.

Errant busts appear so often in Jacob's fantasy worlds,

 it makes sense to put a few more on the floor beneath them.

The bust in the corner is a portrait of Jacob from thirty years ago

Misha's portrait sculpture of Chaim appears

beneath Chaim's self portrait

Chaim’s portrait of Misha from the 1980’s,

back when Misha was more like a 

People's Hero of the Soviet Union

instead of the 

Palette and Chisel coach house. 

Alexander

Here's the exhibition debut of an artist from the next generation,

Jacob's son, Alexander.

Looking back to the earliest decades of  Russian Modernism,

Alexander has been strongly influenced by constructivism.

Whether he will take that style into the 22nd century,

only time will tell. 

New Years Day 2020

In Memoriam
Lee Radke

But for a fatal car crash a few days before Christmas,

Lee would have been here on New Year's Day,

just like he's been to every drawing marathon

for the past twenty-plus years.

Here’s his website

Ascension to the Fourth Floor Lights on!

Rich Morrow's Gold Medal Artwork from 2018,

 "Ascension to the Fourth Floor Studio" 

has been donated to the academy 

and fitted with glowing lights in every window.

One of the place's permanent residents, Ratatouille,

has been added to the front yard

to enhance authenticity.

Too cute by a half?

Yes it is.

But it's at least as clever

as all the high-jinx

performed by all those early members

a hundred years ago

who also had way too much time on their hands.

And I suspect that future members will be enjoying this piece

far more than any of our paintings left on the walls

long after all of us

have been summoned up to the fourth floor.