{"id":32300,"date":"2015-08-11T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32300"},"modified":"2015-08-09T09:52:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T13:52:19","slug":"great-artists-reluctantly-explain-their-work-to-moderns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/08\/11\/great-artists-reluctantly-explain-their-work-to-moderns\/","title":{"rendered":"Great artists (reluctantly) explain their work to moderns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/227007\/the-artist-statements-of-the-old-masters\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Seed<\/a> forces some great artists of the past to describe their work as if they were modern artists:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf the great European artists of the past were alive today, what kinds of statements would they need to write to explain and justify their work?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This summer I asked myself that question over two dozen times for a small, humor book that I have been developing. I hope you will find the sampling of seven statements below funny and even a bit poetic. Five of them were written specifically for <em>Hyperallergic <\/em>and two are from my new book.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Great-art-explained-da-Vinci-853x550.jpg\" alt=\"Great art explained - da Vinci\" width=\"853\" height=\"550\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Great-art-explained-da-Vinci-853x550.jpg 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Great-art-explained-da-Vinci-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Great-art-explained-da-Vinci-480x309.jpg 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Great-art-explained-da-Vinci.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Great-art-explained-Delacroix-853x495.jpg\" alt=\"Great art explained - Delacroix\" width=\"853\" height=\"495\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Great-art-explained-Delacroix-853x495.jpg 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Great-art-explained-Delacroix-150x87.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Great-art-explained-Delacroix-480x279.jpg 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Great-art-explained-Delacroix.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/neveryetmelted.com\/2015\/08\/06\/modern-statements-by-the-old-masters\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Never Yet Melted<\/em><\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Seed forces some great artists of the past to describe their work as if they were modern artists: \u201cIf the great European artists of the past were alive today, what kinds of statements would they need to write to explain and justify their work?\u201d This summer I asked myself that question over two dozen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28,53],"tags":[102,463],"class_list":["post-32300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","category-politics","tag-art","tag-parody"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8oY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32305,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32300\/revisions\/32305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}