{"id":2982,"date":"2011-05-26T14:46:12","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T21:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/05\/art-healing-ministry\/"},"modified":"2011-05-26T14:46:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T21:46:35","slug":"art-healing-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/26\/art-healing-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Healing Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Can a Picasso Cure You?<\/h1>\n

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Sara Krulwich\/The New York Times<\/p>\n

The conceptual artist Alexander Melamid has created a storefront clinic in SoHo where visitors will be “treated” through exposure to fine art.<\/em><\/p>\n

By CHARLES McGRATH<\/span><\/p>\n

The Russian-born artist Alexander Melamid is by nature an ironist, so adept at serving as his own straight man that it\u2019s hard to tell how seriously he means to be taken. He may not know himself.<\/p>\n

Mr. Melamid and Vitaly Komar, a fellow Russian \u00e9migr\u00e9, were for years a highly visible\u00a0Conceptual art duo<\/a>\u00a0in New York. They were known for monumental paintings, including one of Stalin killing himself in a New Jersey motel, in the style of Socialist Realism, and for teaching elephants in Thailand how to paint like Abstract Expressionists.<\/p>\n

Their most famous project was probably \u201cThe People\u2019s Choice,\u201d in which they polled people about their preferences in art and determined that what everyone really wanted to look at was a landscape with lots of blue, some animals and a historical figure or two. A painting they did according to this recipe \u2014 the ideal painting for Americans, they maintained \u2014 featured George Washington and some present-day picnickers by a bucolic lake with a hippo in the background.<\/p>\n

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