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| As Seen by Both Sides: American and Vietnamese Artists Look at the War
RUDOLF BARANIK |
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Rudolf Baranik is an abstract painter with soul. Using warm and cool tones of black and white, his work ranges from touching and lyrical to moody and spare. A series of paintings of white writing in black is very affecting. It is visual verse that looks both contemporary and ancient, like hieroglyphic tablets. Baranik explains "I write with oil stick on a very matte black surface. They're not just marks. They're real words. They're quotations from Eliot and Rilke and letters to our son. I'm not interested in its readability. It's not even readable to me. Basically, I know what is there, but I don't know where."
I'm glad veterans are involved in the exhibition, because all through the years of the antiwar movement, we never had any antagonism toward the American soldiers. I understood for many it was an infuriating thing they had to do." From an interview with Lois Tarlow |
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