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Thursday, May 01, 2003
There Is Always More To Do
Artists are always confronted with the urgency that there is always more to do. This feeling is the artist's double edged sword. The "always more to do" can add to our anxiety or our feeling that we are not good enough; still, it keeps us going in this endeavor; we are never bored with our art.
In an interview with John Freeman, John Updike, now 71 years old says,
"There's the fear that somehow you neglected to say what was really yours to say," "It's not likely. I've written a lot. I must have somewhere touched on almost every aspect of my life and experience. Nevertheless, there's this haunting fear that the thing you left out is going to be finally captured."
In Updike's new novel, Seek My Face, characters are based loosely on Lee Krasner and not at all loosely on Jackson Pollock. The novel's main conflict, however, is the jealousy, fascination, and bond between Hope Chafetz, a 79-year-old arthritic painter, who led a bohemian life during the "go-go" days of Abstract Expressionism and the young art historian, Kathryn D'Angelo, who interviews Hope. Kathryn while lacking an exciting life, has all the assets of youth. As in many of Updikes previous novels, This novel explores New England Puritanism along with the pleasures of the taboo.
Updike has been criticized for writing so blatantly about Pollock and rewriting art history. Updike handles the criticism gravely, by explaining that he did credit the biography and that he "saw the facts as the flowerpot out of which something surprising would grow." In a lighter tone he jests, "Thankfully,...these things come out after the type has been set."
Artists are always confronted with the urgency that there is always more to do. This feeling is the artist's double edged sword. The "always more to do" can add to our anxiety or our feeling that we are not good enough; still, it keeps us going in this endeavor; we are never bored with our art.
In an interview with John Freeman, John Updike, now 71 years old says,
"There's the fear that somehow you neglected to say what was really yours to say," "It's not likely. I've written a lot. I must have somewhere touched on almost every aspect of my life and experience. Nevertheless, there's this haunting fear that the thing you left out is going to be finally captured."
In Updike's new novel, Seek My Face, characters are based loosely on Lee Krasner and not at all loosely on Jackson Pollock. The novel's main conflict, however, is the jealousy, fascination, and bond between Hope Chafetz, a 79-year-old arthritic painter, who led a bohemian life during the "go-go" days of Abstract Expressionism and the young art historian, Kathryn D'Angelo, who interviews Hope. Kathryn while lacking an exciting life, has all the assets of youth. As in many of Updikes previous novels, This novel explores New England Puritanism along with the pleasures of the taboo.
Updike has been criticized for writing so blatantly about Pollock and rewriting art history. Updike handles the criticism gravely, by explaining that he did credit the biography and that he "saw the facts as the flowerpot out of which something surprising would grow." In a lighter tone he jests, "Thankfully,...these things come out after the type has been set."
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