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John Worth is a painter with a genuine calling,and a real gift.But he seems in some sense subdued,His radical girlfriend has a ready diagnosis:she tells him that his work will never come to more than decoration if he does not infuse it with social meaning,political meaning Because she in a substantial person he has to consider what she says,and it hurts-he's just not the man for the job.Stubbornly,instinctive-ly,worth resists.
His life becomes disordered,unhappy.But somehow,ion his trouble and loneliness,he finds himself breaking new ground,He has always been workmanlike and steady.Now he works endlessly,with a pertinactiy that look like rage,as he begins to see h8is way.And as his art changes,his life is not spared the accidents of mortality,His girl leaves him,a good friend has a breakdown and kills himself.But within a year a big London exhibition of his work is arranged,the precocious climacteric of his life and art-bes expressed in the violent shock of one large canvas,a modern Christ's entry into a modern Jerusalem,bringing not peace but a sword.
His life becomes disordered,unhappy.But somehow,ion his trouble and loneliness,he finds himself breaking new ground,He has always been workmanlike and steady.Now he works endlessly,with a pertinactiy that look like rage,as he begins to see h8is way.And as his art changes,his life is not spared the accidents of mortality,His girl leaves him,a good friend has a breakdown and kills himself.But within a year a big London exhibition of his work is arranged,the precocious climacteric of his life and art-bes expressed in the violent shock of one large canvas,a modern Christ's entry into a modern Jerusalem,bringing not peace but a sword.