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| Despite a measure of abjection comparable to Cecily Brown's or Barnaby Furnas's, and a faux-naif crudeness reminiscent of Brian Calvin or Christoph Ruckhaberle, Schutz also harks back to older artists like Jorg Immendorf and Philip Guston, and further to Gauguin and van Gogh, Erich Heckel and Paula Modersohn-Becker. In their gilded heyday, lyricist William Schwenck Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan were the leading purveyors of English opera burlesque, that stoutly middle-class art form consisting of faux-naif characters, tongue-twisting verse and preposterous comic plots that gently stood the prevailing social order on its venerable head. Yet while that '60s hippies-in-the-woods movement was either faux-naif, or just plain naive, Blue Sky's work had a certain order and sophistication, even while having a lot of the freshness and robust pragmatism of what had been going on further south. |
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