Recog ch 2

[alice wellintown]

Read _The Accidental Masterpiece_ by NYT art critic Michael Kimmelman;
he describes Bonnard and his Marthe, how they met...reminds me of
Wyatt and Christiane somehow; the muse that Wyatt needs here is nearly
the opposite of Marthe, for he uses Christiane for her "suggestion of
the lines he needed, forms which he knew but could not discover in the
work without this allusion to completed reality before him."  That a
completed and finished reality is needed for Wyatt to paint suggests
that his work is not a mere copy of a  mirror held up to nature, but
takes, if only in a line, if only as allusion, from Christiane's Life
(what's in a name like Christiane?).