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Agony in a Yawn. A hallmark of the collection is its focus on the well-painted picture with perfect brushwork. Nothing among Simon's pictures looks unfinished or sloppy. "Simon's primary consideration is esthetic quality without regard for periods," says Richard Brown, director of the Los Angeles County Museum. "And he lives with it just that way, hanging a Van Dyck alongside a Gorky in his office, a Memling alongside a Degas at home. This takes courage and taste, because it means holding the bat full length, not shortening...
...tough reality within. As Brown explains it, Simon has "a sympathy, an understanding, a desire to recognize agony in life," and Simon himself, a self-made intellectual who quit college after six weeks, considers "the facts of life and cold reality as bona fide subjects of art." The yawn of Degas' laundress conceals the agony of poverty and weary boredom...
...immediately they become despondent, wailing their favorite fado." Positive-thinking Portuguese try unsuccessfully to combat this downbeat sense of life; if such songs must be sung, a Portuguese intellectual has urged, "let us suffer en famille and avoid letting foreigners think we have invented a new kind of yawn...
...Geometric expressionism shows in the "hard-edge" painting of Richard Anuskiewicz' blinding checkerboard or in Ellsworth Kelly's triad of yellow tongues. Pop art's proponent is James Rosenquist's Morning Sun, with a plastic awning rising to stifle a billboard model's yawn...
There is one authentic yawn stifler in Supper, an inspired import from the British music halls named Tessie O'Shea. The O'Shea is fat and sassy, swoops about like a bat on a binge, and pitches irresistibly into a medley of cockney nostalgia, as in Don't Take Our Charlie for the Army. Tessie O'Shea has no relation whatever to the plot of The Girl Who Came to Supper. Lucky lady...