Review: Helene Schjerfbeck retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art – San Diego Jewish World

Review: Helene Schjerfbeck retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck, on view through April 5 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, reveals an artistic trajectory defined not by mastery achieved but by mastery repeatedly risked. The power of Schjerfbeck lies in her refusal to settle-not into a style, not into mastery, not into resolution.