Merlin No.2

LEON BERKOWITZ, 1911-1987

Berkowitz's paintings have been compared to the works of Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko both for their shared concern with color and for their meditational qualities. The comparison is particularly apt for it is in their aspect as meditations that Berkowitz's works unify his own dimensions as painter and philosopher and teacher. His concern for meaning, his passion for technique, and his almost ingenuous enthusiasm for interpretation and understanding are summed up in the experience of the paintings as meditations. The old-fashioned fascination with beauty and meaning transcends the technical, and the paintings become the experience, not only for the painter, but for all who behold them as well.

Source: ARTSPACE