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Sunlight, 1978. Oil on canvas. Collection of The Jewish Museum
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4. See Joan Semmel
A changeable landscape of bodies.
The Jewish Museum.
Self-love, self-hate, vulnerability, sex: It’s all present in this master of flesh’s paintings from the artist’s point of view. The bodies here come in an array of palettes, from the almost blandly photorealistic tones in a 1978 self-portrait to Purple Diagonal from 1980, in which colors flow into hallucinogenic sluices. The panoply of human contours makes us feel so exposed it almost hurts. —Jerry Saltz
4. See Joan Semmel
A changeable landscape of bodies.
The Jewish Museum.
Self-love, self-hate, vulnerability, sex: It’s all present in this master of flesh’s paintings from the artist’s point of view. The bodies here come in an array of palettes, from the almost blandly photorealistic tones in a 1978 self-portrait to Purple Diagonal from 1980, in which colors flow into hallucinogenic sluices. The panoply of human contours makes us feel so exposed it almost hurts. —Jerry Saltz
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