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Christopher Hampton, the playwright who wrote and directed Carrington, obviously believes it was the former. Yet his account of the relationship between the half-forgotten painter and the homosexual who turned biography into a modernist art form is distant and gingerly, respectful and respectable. Reason tells us that there must have been something more needy and smothering in her nature, something more grasping and careless in his, than Hampton shows us. After all, Dora did marry a handsome youth not because she was smitten with him but because Lytton was. Yet their menage a trois is presented blandly...
...painter of urban loneliness: many of the 59 paintings at the exhibit pictured only one person in an isolated room, and even those with two people showed strained interaction at best...
They came because Edward Hopper's paintings are as true today, or perhaps truer, than when he set his brush to them. He is a painter of nostalgia for an America that was lost with the advent of cars, automation and urbanization. He is a painter of solitude for a country that has become increasingly atomized, where the California freeway lanes for carpoolers are often empty for hours at a time. He is a painter of loneliness for a country that has become increasingly lonely, where people search for cyberlove rather than knocking on a neighbor's door...
Artists, like sleepwalkers, sometimes take the right turn for unconscious reasons, and so it was with Copley. The "liny" style of his "little way in Boston" turned out, in the end, not to be a provincial flaw. Rather, it proved the very basis of his best achievement as a painter. It produced the hard, unfussed, straightforward realism of his portraits, which make up a unique record of the men and women who formed America from the top in the late 18th century...
...poverty of means then available to an American painter, Copley had created a counterpart to the plain, didactic neoclassical style that Jacques-Louis David used in his portrait of the Lavoisiers: earnestness, probity, equality, set forth within the frame of marriage, an Ideal Republic of two. In England he would paint more elaborate images than this--but none more close knit and concentrated...