{"id":225,"date":"2005-11-01T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=225"},"modified":"2010-01-03T01:43:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T01:43:49","slug":"great-moments-in-art-criticism-losing-your-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/11\/great-moments-in-art-criticism-losing-your-bottle.html","title":{"rendered":"Great moments in art criticism: losing your bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/arts\/features\/story\/0,11710,1605873,00.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"That's not a milk bottle!\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/artmilk01.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">The wonderful thing about writing up an exhibition of well-known artworks is that not only do you not have to look at it (thus saving you from putting your drink down at the opening), you don&#8217;t even have to look at reproductions of it in the catalogue. It&#8217;s all been written down for you already! So you can just copy down some other critic&#8217;s description of the work in question, and thus tweak your opinions on it to best suit your audience. If it&#8217;s a particularly famous work you don&#8217;t even have to pretend to be original &#8211; <strong>you<\/strong> try saying something new about <em>The Scream<\/em>, smartarse!<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">The only time this method might come unstuck is if the description you pick turns out to be, in fact, completely <strong>wrong<\/strong>. Now the exhibition is open, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/arts\/features\/story\/0,11710,1605873,00.html\">Adrian Searle<\/a> might want inspect <em>Les Joyeux Farceurs<\/em> for himself and ask why a milk bottle has a tube down the middle, and why the milk is transparent and fizzing. Alternatively, he can quote other critics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0865472475\/qid=1130883630\/sr=8-1\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14\/104-7090681-5595126?v=glance&#038;s=books&amp;n=507846\">who have actually worked out<\/a> what the painting depcits. <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">You&#8217;d be amazed how much you learn from a painting by looking at it.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/hello\/154\/1398\/640\/rousseau_farceurs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sprung bad!\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/detail_farceurs.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wonderful thing about writing up an exhibition of well-known artworks is that not only do you not have to look at it (thus saving you from putting your drink down at the opening), you don&#8217;t even have to look at reproductions of it in the catalogue. It&#8217;s all been written down for you already! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3091,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/3091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}