Just been with Ele to see the Gainsborough theatre paintings at the Holburne. Lots of people there but no-one I knew. Portraits of 18th century actors, managers, playwrights, dancers, who performed at theatres in Bath and London. Interesting to see how loosely the garments and backgrounds are painted compared to the faces - which are all recognisably Gainsborough faces. Also on display was Hockney's "Mr & Mrs Clark and Percy" which was much bigger than I'd thought, about 3x2 metres. Striking and very posed, somehow more artificial in reality than when reproduced as a small image in books. How amazing it would be to be painted by Hockney!
Yesterday I saw the film The Favourite which I hated. The acting was tremendous but I thought it was one of the worst films, a sort of cross between a Restoration tragi-comedy (wigs, white powdered faces, etc - mostly the men), farce, gratuitous sex (ok to have a couple of scenes in case we missed the lesbian theme), overloud intrusive music including some meaningless bonging, mangled history, shallow, overlong and just deeply unpleasant (that polite word). Not to mention the rabbits (they did at least steal the scenes where they hopped around the Queen's bedroom). It's sure to win lots of Oscars.
Yesterday I saw the film The Favourite which I hated. The acting was tremendous but I thought it was one of the worst films, a sort of cross between a Restoration tragi-comedy (wigs, white powdered faces, etc - mostly the men), farce, gratuitous sex (ok to have a couple of scenes in case we missed the lesbian theme), overloud intrusive music including some meaningless bonging, mangled history, shallow, overlong and just deeply unpleasant (that polite word). Not to mention the rabbits (they did at least steal the scenes where they hopped around the Queen's bedroom). It's sure to win lots of Oscars.
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