Peter Saul is one of those artists whose reputation would soar if his work was available only in reproduction. Online, he’s golden with a creepy gleam to his colors. In person, it all falls down. What gleamed is dull. Instead of silky, his form looks mechanical. Because I’ve spent years looking at him online, I forgot that he’s not very good. His retrospective at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts was a rude awakening.
Mario Naves gets it right in the New York Observer, link via Two Coats of Paint.
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