There are artists who appear to have been born to charm and enchant.
Christian Science Monitor
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Galanin deals with one idea at a time; he allows his figures plenty of space in which to breathe. The light is everywhere cool and even, and his notions of nature and architecture are entirely consoling.
New York Times
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His colors are bright and unexpected, like a welcome at the door. His tranquil works play with scale the way a cat plays with yarn.
Newsday
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The artist’s women are something else all together. Busty, big-thighed, voluptuous, these are creatures that command with their curves, not behind your back but right upfront.
Financial Times
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Galanin informs us fully of his subject’s identity, shape, dimensions, texture, volume, and color but allows none of his feelings towards it.
Christian Science Monitor
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He has an ancient national heritage that makes itself felt. Some of his inventions could be the work on an unsentimental Chagall.
New York Times
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The exquisitely done paintings of Galanin are especially beautiful. They conjure up a dream world filled with romantic longings and times gone by.
Soho Weekly News
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These paintings were not, after all, intended to make a great deal of logical sense, only to delight, amuse, intrigue, and enchant. And neither were they intended to reflect a concern for the great formal or theoretical questions of the day. They are too happy and carefree for that. Although they do have just enough melancholy to make them look “modern” and just enough enigma to make them feel at home in the age that produced Rousseau’s “The Sleeping Gypsy.”
Christian Science Monitor
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He stays so firmly in dreamland. The poetic imagination is his specialty, and in his case it is an imagination that never runs red hot.
New York Times
“an unsentimental Chagall…” (NY Times)
There are artists who appear to have been born to charm and enchant.
Christian Science Monitor
…
Galanin deals with one idea at a time; he allows his figures plenty of space in which to breathe. The light is everywhere cool and even, and his notions of nature and architecture are entirely consoling.
New York Times
…
His colors are bright and unexpected, like a welcome at the door. His tranquil works play with scale the way a cat plays with yarn.
Newsday
…
The artist’s women are something else all together. Busty, big-thighed, voluptuous, these are creatures that command with their curves, not behind your back but right upfront.
Financial Times
…
Galanin informs us fully of his subject’s identity, shape, dimensions, texture, volume, and color but allows none of his feelings towards it.
Christian Science Monitor
…
He has an ancient national heritage that makes itself felt. Some of his inventions could be the work on an unsentimental Chagall.
New York Times
…
The exquisitely done paintings of Galanin are especially beautiful. They conjure up a dream world filled with romantic longings and times gone by.
Soho Weekly News
…
These paintings were not, after all, intended to make a great deal of logical sense, only to delight, amuse, intrigue, and enchant. And neither were they intended to reflect a concern for the great formal or theoretical questions of the day. They are too happy and carefree for that. Although they do have just enough melancholy to make them look “modern” and just enough enigma to make them feel at home in the age that produced Rousseau’s “The Sleeping Gypsy.”
Christian Science Monitor
…
He stays so firmly in dreamland. The poetic imagination is his specialty, and in his case it is an imagination that never runs red hot.
New York Times