EPSTEIN AGAIN
CREATES SENSATION WITH. OLD TESTAMENT DRAWINGSi REPLIES TO CRITICISM. LONDON, Saturday. Epstein, the artist, has again created a sensation in the art world with an exhibition of startling water colohr drawings illustrating the Old Test'ament. The pictures are done in Epstein's most unconventional style. - One shows a grotesquely shaped Eve whose face is a mere outline, without features. : Adam is painted so dark that cri'tics declared that.he is a black man, bht Epstein says Lhat it is merely sunburn. Patriarchs are shown in queer poses and the gayest eolours. The Deity is strangely represented. Saul and Jonathan are drawn as lithe, leaping hodies, with weird inhuman faces. Some of the pictures have striking streiigth, vitality, and originality; others are crude and unfinished. Epstein, replying to scathing criticisms, denies that he is poking fun at the Bible and cartooning the patriarchs. He declares that he is always greatly influenced hy the Bible, and made the drawings in a deeply sincere religious spirit. He declines to draw "pretty-pretty" angels, and protests that the real artist must he original and forget the pictures he has seen in the family Bible. The drawings form part of a series of 200 intended for a special edition of the old; Testament, limited to 500 copies, priced at 15 guineas.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 174, 16 March 1932, Page 7
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