Word: gulley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...imagination the author had to make when he created his gallery of characters. Though Gary was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat by birth (the Carys of Cary Castle, Donegal), his brief training as a painter helped him get inside the skin of his most famous creature, the artist-bum Gulley Jimson in The Horse's Mouth. Experience as a British colonial official (from 1914 to 1920 in Nigeria) lent nuances to one of the best portraits of an emergent African in fiction, the black-skinned hero of Gary's fifth book, Mister Johnson...
...stunt worthy of Gulley Jimson? Hundertwasser, 36, is not fictional and is twice as eccentric. He writes steamy manifestoes, the most famous of which praised rust, rot and decay as mankind's truest friends. Now living in Venice, he sometimes dresses like an unholy relic in caftan, brocaded jacket and boots, sometimes in a kimono to match his Japanese wife. He painted his Citroën sedan in varying hues of metallic violet and noted it in his life catalogue as his 445th work of art. The rest of his 611 recorded works are the product of a wise...
Sampson Shillitoe, poet, souse, womanizer and pratfalling Prometheus, might be the worshipful nephew of Joyce Gary's artist-as-an-old-grog, Gulley Jimson. The resemblance extends to the knockabout plot, kept in motion by Shillitoe's talent for anarchy, his tropism for cops and his tendency to rant at strangers. Even at the end, when Shillitoe is strapped to the operating table while the lobotomist's needle probes to discover whether truth is beauty, his plight is reminiscent of Jimson clinging to his wall and painting his soaring mural while the walls threaten to fall down...
...Great Forgery, by Edith Simon. The hero of this ironical novel, a scruffy old painter who forges a Holbein to show the art experts up as Philistines, is a fine, randy character who bears a strong resemblance to Joyce Gary's Gulley Jimson...
...Great Forgery, by Edith Simon. The hero of this ironical novel, a scruffy old painter who forges a Holbein to show the art experts up as Philistines, is a fine, randy character who bears a strong resemblance to Joyce Gary's Gulley Jimson...