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Raoul De Keyser at Whitechapel Gallery London
Reviews

From: Stephen Corse
Category: Exhibitions
Date: 09 April 2004

Review

Ho hum. A life times's work and sometimes it paid off. The paintings often achieve a low key elegance. A red and green zinging on a beige background, or a shape insinuating something real. A painter's painter, they say. But the painters he represents are the defeated, ones with minor ambitions and not enough to say. These Keysers include some of the mysteries of paintings, the way in which a blob or scratch of oil paint can be beautiful, but not enough greatness as seen in El Greco or Guston.

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