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- PROPER NOUNS: “Scott Burton (1975),” from Philip Pearlstein’s People, Places, Things."
A year shy of his 90th birthday, Pearlstein — who is famous for the sinuous, candid nudes he painted during abstraction’s heydey — endures as an icon of 20th century art. See more than 60 of his paintings, drawings and prints in this survey at St. Pete’s MFA. A friend to Andy Warhol, with whom he shared several roach-infested apartments in New York City, Pearlstein championed realistic painting at the height of Abstract Expressionism. But rather than adopting traditional conventions for depicting the human body, he rewrote the genre by positioning figures in unusual and often un-idealizing poses. The art world responded by enshrining his works in collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian. —Megan Voeller
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Museum of Fine Arts
- Downtown St. Pete 255 Beach Drive N.E.
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- fine-arts.org
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