Review of “Nicolas Carone: What Matters—The Late Paintings”
Around 2007 Nicolas Carone, then 90 years old and legally blind, underwent an extraordinary creative reawakening that lasted until his death in 2010.
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Around 2007 Nicolas Carone, then 90 years old and legally blind, underwent an extraordinary creative reawakening that lasted until his death in 2010.
The artist Nicolas Carone has synthesized a breadth of influences—some as remote as Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci, others as intimate as his friends and fellow painters Jackson Pollock and Roberto Matta—to create a body of work that has at times during his decades-long career swerved close to recognizable styles but has never settled comfortably into them