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Arthur Polonsky,
acclaimed nationally as a master draughtsman and painter, imbues what
appears as reality with a unique, mysterious inner force. His work has a
haunting, mystical quality, as if a virtuoso artistic visionary is
seeing into our soul, or beyond our life to our dream world. Polonsky is
one of Boston’s great painters in the last fifty years; his work is in
many prestigious museums and collections, locally and nationally.
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Arthur Polonsky, born in Lynn,
Massachusetts, in 1925, is the son of East European immigrants. A
graduate of the Boston Museum School, where he was a student of Karl
Zerbe, Polonsky joined numerous other American artists in their
pilgrimage to France, in 1948, following graduation, where he was
absorbed in the artistic ideas of Picasso, Matisse, and Redon, as well
as many earlier European Masters. Upon returning to the States, Polonsky
launched a career that has established him as a prominent figure and
much admired artist in the Boston community.
Polonsky is known among the art
cognoscenti of Boston as a virtuoso draughtsman. The noted Boston
artist, Barbara Swan, has commented on Arthur Polonsky’s extraordinary
ability in an essay accompanying Polonsky’s retrospective at the
Fitchburg Art Museum. “Arthur Polonsky’s remarkable gift as a
draughtsman. His drawings have the excitement of a direct response
to a subject, a daring use of line or tone, a sense of charged
intensity. His portrait drawings not only have likeness but express a
mood that is part artist, part model. To achieve a likeness is a gift in
itself. When the gift for likeness is matched by a commanding talent for
drawing the result is a masterful work.”
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