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...American artists to whom he is closest are Edward Hopper and his fellow Californian, the late great Richard Diebenkorn; among Europeans, the names Giorgio Morandi, Chardin and Manet are among the first to pop up. But he is also one of those painters who, happily, feel entitled to pick and quote wherever they choose: he does not suffer from the snobbery of influence. "The sublime of Orange Crate art," critic Adam Gopnik writes in his catalog introduction, and one knows just what he means. Thiebaud is one of the few American artists whose ambitions have no Puritan or didactic dimension...
...flubs a line. Goes to where the action is. Prepares...prepares...becomes. Will throw a punch at a photog or anyone who provokes him. Is a stand-up guy. A man's man. A trusted friend. An actor's actor. A wonderful poet, screenwriter, director. Father of Dylan and Hopper Jack. Even sober, the one to party with. Enjoy the differences in each of his performances. Dark energy exploding like a sun. Shows up everyone with his brilliance. Lives in a moment-to-moment reality. Uses all his senses in his work. Makes the accident work...
...Dennis Hopper is an actor, writer and director. He and Penn collaborated in the Hopper-directed film Colors in 1988 and in Penn's directorial debut, The Indian Runner...
...through the cornrows to the edge of the screen - draws on Léon Spilliaert's Le Paquebot ou L'Estran, a painting of alternating strips of sand and ocean blue bands stretching to the tip of the canvas. Add some trees in front of the house in Edward Hopper's Lighthouse Hill, take away the lighthouse, and you have the Bates family's haunted home in Psycho...
...variety of collaborators who were immaculately talented, but were further along in their alcohol- and drug-dependency than he was (Hill sketches Southern as a functional "user" whose biggest weaknesses were drink and Dexamyl - used to complete manuscripts on short deadlines): William Burroughs and a far-gone Dennis Hopper on an adaptation of Burroughs' "Junky"; Larry Flynt and Hopper on a biopic of Jim Morrison; singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, another "grand" soul, on the aforementioned "Telephone...