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- The Independent (London, England)
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- July 7, 1994
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The R B Kitaj retrospective opened at the Tate Gallery to
hostile reviews. Richard Dorment (Daily Telegraph) complained that,
"His explanations are so cerebral . . . that I began to feel
assaulted by the overbearing ego of a man who can't imagine how his
every thought could fail to fascinate me." William Feaver
(Observer) wrote: "Many of the paintings here are curiously
arbitrary, line and colour laid on like orders received." Tim
Hilton (Independent on Sunday) remarked: "Kitaj is an egotist, and
at his best when giving interviews."
The Independent's own critic, Andrew Graham-Dixon was the most
scathing: "In the absence of any apparent emotional drive to create
pictures, Kitaj has spent his ...