{"id":840,"date":"2008-08-16T12:37:41","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T19:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/08\/serial-offender-peter-saul-seventy-four\/"},"modified":"2008-08-16T12:40:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T19:40:55","slug":"serial-offender-peter-saul-seventy-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/16\/serial-offender-peter-saul-seventy-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Serial Offender Peter Saul @ Seventy-four"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the New York Times\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Provocateur: The Peter Saul Manifesto<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n

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By\u00a0HOLLAND COTTER<\/a><\/p>\n

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. \u2014 Peter Saul, who turns 74 on Saturday, is a classic artist\u2019s artist, one of our few important practicing history painters and a serial <\/a>offender in violations of good taste. His career, while long, steady and admired, has never exceeded cult status. It\u2019s an example of can\u2019t-see-the-tree-for-the-forest visibility.<\/p>\n

The influence of Mr. Saul\u2019s paintings, with their cartoony figures, lurid-lush colors, splatter-film expressionism and contrarian take on topical subjects, pervades recent art. It has contributed mightily to major careers, like those of\u00a0Carroll Dunham<\/a>\u00a0and Elizabeth Murray. And it has paved the way for the neo-Surrealist noodlings of countless student painters spilling out of art schools and straight into the arms of a ravenous market.<\/p>\n

Mr. Saul\u2019s art is not pretty, though it has many eye-catching pleasures. Nor is it polite. Indeed, the artist makes zealous efforts to ensure the opposite. In America today, he says in a catalog interview, \u201cthere\u2019s a tremendous need to not be seen as racist, not seen as sexist. So I want to make sure I am seen as those things.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/a>He succeeds. What museum would be the right one for a painting of a knife-wielding\u00a0O. J. Simpson<\/a>\u00a0strapped down for execution as a buxom blond angel points to a blood-stained glove and intones, \u201cThis is why you have to die\u201d? Or for a picture of\u00a0Christopher Columbus<\/a>\u00a0slaughtering New World natives who themselves hold platters of chopped human limbs in their arms?<\/p>\n

What is the appropriate place for art that stirs together John Wayne Gacy and Angela Davis, Mickey Mouse and\u00a0Ethel Rosenberg<\/a>, Stalin and\u00a0Willem de Kooning<\/a>, Basil Wolverton and\u00a0George W. Bush<\/a>, then spikes the broth with prickly references to capitalism, Communism, homophobia, feminism, Black Power, racism, pedophilia and art-world politics and \u2014 last but not least \u2014 to the aging, decaying, self-lacerating artist himself?<\/p>\n

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from the New York Times\u00a0 Provocateur: The Peter Saul Manifesto By\u00a0HOLLAND COTTER NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. \u2014 Peter Saul, who turns 74 on Saturday, is a classic artist\u2019s artist, one of our few important practicing history painters and a serial offender in violations of good taste. His career, while long, steady and admired, has never exceeded […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","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=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}