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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

Romantic

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Jerry Saltz is saying that it took him a long time to truly understand and appreciate Steven Parrino's art because at first, he saw it as overly stylized and stuck in certain artistic clichés. He initially thought Parrino's work was pretentious and followed predictable patterns related to romantic and conceptual art styles.

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