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Jerry Saltz

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.
Jerry Saltz
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Jerry Saltz is saying that it took him two decades to truly understand and appreciate Steven Parrino's artwork because initially, he judged it harshly based on its style and approach. He viewed Parrino's art as overly stylized, emotionally exaggerated, predictable, and aligned with a tough, conceptual form of abstract art that didn't resonate with him at first.

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