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...Blue Wet Paint Columns" tells us, or is she his lonely step-mother, as we read in "The Search for Water"? Is Martin a runaway boy who shows up at John's Kansas house one day, or a grade school teacher in New York? An obscenely rich club-hopper or a Midwestern night watchman who barely can scrape together enough for rent...
Shadow Play is definitely corilineal. Baxter's setting is conventional small-town America, but his scenes are as eerie as the realism of Edward Hopper paintings. Five Oaks is a town where history no longer takes root. Industry is elsewhere. Spirits too have up and gone. People have dusty backgrounds and odd occupations. A Palmer neighbor is a retired airline dietitian; a young woman describes herself as a Con-Tact-paper decorator...
With the same argument you can claim that an artist like William Gropper, who drew those stirring cartoons of fat capitalists in top hats for the New Masses 60 years ago, may have something over an artist like Edward Hopper, who didn't care a plugged nickel for community and was always painting figures in lonely rooms in such a way that you can't be sure whether he was criticizing alienation or affirming the virtues of solitude...
...this presidential material? In berating career politicians, Brown kept repeating. "There's a certain unreality here." But the unreality I saw lay in his perception and approach. I was hearing something I had only read about, seen in old Dennis Hopper movies, and heard my parents reminisce about: unapologetic, furious and bitter establishment-bashing. "I don't enjoy taking a crowbar" to the system, Brown said, but it was clear that he enjoyed it very much...
...toss-up whether you want to see George Segal's once white, now gray, plaster-cast figures in relation to mass culture; today they seem even more attached to solitude and individual grittiness than they did in the '60s, sculptural materializations of the urban mood of Hopper. You could make some kind of case for that excellent California painter Wayne Thiebaud as a Pop artist because he painted hot dogs and angel-food cakes; but artists have always put the food of their time in their still lifes, whether a jamon serrano by Velazquez or a baguette by Manet...