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Article: Peter Rostovsky at The Project. (New York).(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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Paintings that depict the beauty and immensity of nature and man's puniness within it were a specialty of Romantic painters. Peter Rostovsky's third solo show at The Project was at once a lampoon of and homage to Romantic landscape painting. He literally took man out of the landscape by placing figurative sculptures on chest-high pedestals in front of both Epiphany Model 3 (2001), a 2-by-6-foot canvas showing an ominous horizon of sky and sea in gray and beige, and Epiphany Model 2 (2001), a 7-foot-diameter tondo depicting a pink and blue sky. The small male figurines (about 6 inches high) were dressed like modern-day hikers and stood, a la Caspar David Friedrich, on ...
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May 22, 2006 ;
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... ... Ghosts baseball team, Director's Award to Alexander Linden, Holy Cross Blessed Sacrament, for his Cathedral of the Epiphany model, and the Student Choice Award (voted on by all of the fourth grade classes who have visited the Museum during the exhibition ...
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