Paintings by Barnett Suskind Robert C. Morgan Conventionally, an artist’s monograph represents a survey over a significant duration in which we see the development of the subject’s career from an earlier formative period to a more mature period. An artist’s monograph...

We humans are hard-wired to recognize and respond to the face. Uniquely blessed (or, perhaps, burdened) among sentient beings with a part of our body that betrays our deepest feelings and sensations, we regard the visages of others at once as reflections of our own...

In their paintings of voluptuous female nudes, both Peter Paul Rubens and Barnett Suskind evoke the Venus of Willendorf, a fertility goddess in ancient times. While Rubens used his young wife Helene as a model and often used real women as models, Suskind’s women take...

Barnett Suskind: Mirroring Emotions Interview by Jan Garden Castro In their paintings of voluptuous female nudes, both Peter Paul Rubens and Barnett Suskind evoke the Venus of Willendorf, a fertility goddess in ancient times. While Rubens used his young wife Helène as...

Notes on The Abstract: As an artist, I have found the challenge with abstract painting is how to eliminate image while maintaining the emotional content and communication I believe is imperative to art. I paint and have painted in many different ways-styles– all the...

“Suskind restores opulence to the female body, and with that dignity”. “Surveying the centuries old history of female nude imagery, one realizes that the only precedent for them (Suskind nudes) is the prehistoric fertility goddess, most famously the Venus of...

Barnett Suskind—especially the female nude body, usually as seen through the male eye—is perhaps the oldest in the history of art. With good reason: it conveys our concern with the condition of our own bodies—our fundamental body narcissism, one might say, recalling...

There seemed to me in the nodding of the faceless but carefully coiffed head, in the gentle folding of her graceful arms over the huge, pendulous breasts such an expression of serene pride; in the dimpled rolls of fat over her belly and hips, in the enormous buttocks...