“In a sense, I’m painting my own departure – to keep going, until the final painting is empty, and you’re no longer casting any shadow on it.”
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3 comments:
Sorry,b, don't agree -can't compare Shaw with Hopper. Hopper is about people, usually isolated in urban bleakness. Not,of course, that his paintings are all peopled,but mostly. Shaw is asking us to see the bleakness for its own sake. It is its own message. As for Larkin: 'Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.' You might say that abandoned garages are to Shaw what sunsets were to Turner?
Yes, I agree but I think there is a * similarity* and it’s in the silences of the paintings. Hopper still ‘ about’ individuals, lonely or isolated individuals, but I think it’s one step from there to the disappearance of the individual. Have you seen the Hopper picture of the petrol station?
I don’t know if it’s Coventry. But I do think there’s a kind of bleakness and ‘neutrality’ in Larkin that is similar: “ death is no better withstood..”. Almost a resignation that everything or everyone will disappear ..” and that’s England gone”. Aubade?
Maybe his roots in Coventry equipped PL to live with the grim reality of ‘life in the cauliflower trade’ better than most of us. (I’ve been to Coventry (in the literal sense). Leaving the cathedral, and still tearfully dwelling on its monuments to war and the pity of war, I inadvertently drove through a Bus Only lane – and received a £30 fine!?)
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