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...want to live my life,” she says. Provost says she’s highly emotional and caring, traits that often conflict with her no-holds-barred tactics in combatting structures of power. Provost is also a lover of aesthetics. She is a painter, sports a nose ring and is decked in a dozen colorful bracelets. And as of last week, she has, forever inked above her heart, a flower with fists in place of stamen. “It’s to express the fact that dissent is very natural and organic...
...best director," Frears proclaimed, "is Julian Schnabel." But the New York painter-auteur was not the best winner. How did he embarrass himself and the Americans watching? Let us count the ways: 1) lumbered across the wide stage to shake the hands of all 10 Jury members; 2) mispronounced the name of his lead actor (Mathieu Amalric) and the biggest international star in the cast (Max Von Sydow); 3) invoked the pseudo-French song "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" (from the Hollywood musical Gigi) to acknowledge the film's five lovely supporting actresses, none of them little girls; 4) insulted...
...been decades since Hopper was miscategorized as an American Scene painter, the long-limbed, tight-lipped yeoman of Washington Square who distilled the essence of coastal New England and the odd corners of Manhattan. The strange solitude in his pictures, which has nothing to do with the regional or picturesque, is much more evident to us now. Even in his stalwart houses presenting themselves silently against blue sky, there's that mood of isolation so unnerving that it was a simple matter for Alfred Hitchcock to put it to his own uses in Psycho, in which an outline evoking every...
...could be an awkward figure painter. His men can be as blocky as his lighthouses. And the women--what to make of his notion of eroticism, all those strapping females who manage to look both carnal and remote? A "hard muscular girl" is how someone described the typical Hopper woman, "sturdy of leg and breast, bulging in her clothes." True enough. But look at Second Story Sunlight, in which her face is a chalky mask with opaque brown lozenges for eyes. She never looks into yours and never will...
Hopper once said his goal as a painter was to achieve "the greatest possible austerity without the loss of emotion." He might have added that the emotion would be a dry-eyed and somewhat mysterious melancholy. And that this would be a part of the national mood we would recognize as soon as we saw it. Even if we didn't know quite what to make...