Topical Guide 864
Mark Dorset
Obsessions
Archetypes
At Home with the Glynns, Chapter 41:
“It’s just that I have to get my work done.”
“No, no, no,” said Margot, puckering her lips with each “no” and moving her head slowly from side to side. “That’s not what it is. This is what it is: you’ve gone nuts.”
Martha laughed and said, to Margot, not to me, “Maybe it’s Our Father’s influence.”
“Of course!” said Margot. “That’s it! The two of them—a couple of loonies—in there searching for the perfect pickle.”
“The archetypal artichoke,” said Martha, giggling.
“The ideal idea,” said Margot.
“Very funny,” I said.
Antonia Harrison, “Core values: the story of art in eight apples,” Apollo, The International Art Magazine:
“With an apple I want to astonish Paris,” Cézanne once said. In his still lifes, the artist radically reimagined how three-dimensional objects could be captured in paint, incorporating multiple viewpoints instead of a single perspective. So allured by the apple was Cézanne that, in one self-portrait, it seems not only to have lodged itself in his art but also in his mind: the drawing shows the artist’s head alongside an apple, as though they were commensurate forms. Perhaps Cézanne lived by his own dictum, often addressed to his portrait sitters—“Be an apple!”
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