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Playwright, born 1932; author of Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1978) and The Petition (1986). The Portrait Works (1989), p. 97.
I first met Brian Clark some years ago, but did not know him well. Suddenly one day, he rang up to say he was working on a play about Rembrandt but did not feel entirely familiar with how a painter works: could he come and talk to me about painting and Rembrandt and studio practice etc.? Yes, I said, but the best way of doing this would surely be to sit for a drawing: in that way we could serve each other, for he would see the job, which after all has not changed all that much since Rembrandt's day, being done. The drawing over, the meetings continued through two or three little oil sketches and an etching, so that he should see (quality apart) the activity in its physical unextraordinariness. All the while we spoke intermittently of Rembrandt and the persistence of that topic could not but change the light in the room and make the darks in the face form different kinds of pools... The Portrait Works (1989), p. 70-71.
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