From the Archive: A Feature by Writer and Art Critic John Berger

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Seminal writer and art critic JohnBerger pens a feature about restoring a painting and saving a moment for a moment

and I share a birthday. He is the person with whom I am most guilty about being a slack correspondent. His insistence on pen and paper and resistance to e-ways lands us slap back in the land of my hieroglyphically illegible handwriting and slows up dialogue into heel dragging gaps of months at a time ... I met John first in 1988 when we made a film –– together in the Hebrides. He is one of the straight up straight down wisest men I know and I love him through and through.

She put the canvas in a black plastic sack in the garage alongside other packages of clothes, books and nondescript objects forgotten by those passing through. Before hiding it away she showed it to me, and I thought: flowers in a nineteenth century interior, a hundred-year-old dream of a new future, almost the same as the past, could only be Russian. The chrysanthemums were lying on a narrow ledge. Behind them stood an empty glazed vase.

So I started. Mixing the colours on a white saucer. For many years I hadn’t used oil paint. When drawing I use inks or acrylic. No other colours mix like oil colours. You search touch by touch for a timbre on the saucer and then you discover whether or not, when applied to the canvas, the colour matches the “voice” you were searching for.

I went to look at the painting several times during the night. Or rather to look at the corner in the small room. I couldn’t leave them like that. Neither the flowers on the ledge nor the painting. You could still see where the white spots had been. Pockmarked. I had to return them in better condition to that late September afternoon, before the dreaded cold of winter arrived – when there would be little to burn for keeping warm.

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