{"id":64,"date":"2008-02-28T19:42:37","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T02:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=64"},"modified":"2008-02-28T19:49:24","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T02:49:24","slug":"some-paintings-the-artists-in-the-third-la-weekly-annual-biennial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/28\/some-paintings-the-artists-in-the-third-la-weekly-annual-biennial\/","title":{"rendered":"SOME PAINTINGS &#8211; The artists in the third L.A. Weekly Annual Biennial"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"Author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/index.php?option=com_lawcontent&amp;task=more_by_author&amp;author=DOUG+HARVEY&amp;Itemid=9\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More articles by this author\">By DOUG HARVEY<\/a><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"Pub_Date\">Wednesday, January 9, 2008 &#8211; 3:45 pm<\/h5>\n<p class=\"Page_Navigation Page_Navigation_Top\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Some paintings give me diamonds, some paintings, heart attacks<br \/>\nSome paintings I give all my bread to, I don\u2019t ever want it back<br \/>\nSome paintings give me jewelry, others buy me clothes<br \/>\nSome paintings give me children I never asked them for.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; font-weight: bold\">\u2014Jagger\/Richards\/Harvey<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: bold\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Painting is dead. Painting isn\u2019t dead.<\/span> Painting is dead! No, it isn\u2019t! Yes, it is! Isn\u2019t! Is! Shut up shut up shut up shut up!!! Okay, now that we have that out of the way&#8230; Painting isn\u2019t the denial-plagued zombie elephant in the room \u2014 art theory is. It\u2019s one of the lines Leonard Cohen left out: Everybody knows a work of art that doesn\u2019t speak for itself is a failure as a work of art. Fortunately, in spite of the best efforts we critics have mustered to impose <em>Artforum<\/em>\u2019s Rules of Order on the rabble, art \u2014 and particularly the <em>medium non grata<\/em> of painting \u2014 just won\u2019t shut up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/images\/stories\/08\/08\/08art03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Brad Eberhard,<span style=\"font-style: italic\"> Let&#8217;s Have Another Baby <\/span>(2007)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"> Painters in the contemporary art world, particularly those from L.A., have to maintain a chameleonesque indeterminacy about their artistic intentions \u2014 be all things to all people \u2014 or face ghettoization. Is this an abstract painting? Or a painting of a painting of an abstract painting, wink wink? It\u2019s the emperor\u2019s new clothes all over. The ultimate irony is that the emperor is actually decked out in an Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat \u2014 the plausible deniability cultivated by painters for the social sphere creates a temporary autonomous zone in the studio wherein a thousand flowers have blossomed. No one can pin them down, so they can get away with anything. The psycho art-market bubble hasn\u2019t hurt production either.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/art+books\/art\/some-paintings\/18036\/\" title=\"LA Weekly is almost as good as Creative Loafing\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full <em>LA Weekly<\/em> Article<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By DOUG HARVEY Wednesday, January 9, 2008 &#8211; 3:45 pm &nbsp; Some paintings give me diamonds, some paintings, heart attacks Some paintings I give all my bread to, I don\u2019t ever want it back Some paintings give me jewelry, others buy me clothes Some paintings give me children I never asked them for. \u2014Jagger\/Richards\/Harvey Painting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}