{"id":2029,"date":"2012-07-09T12:01:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T16:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2012-07-09T13:38:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T17:38:01","slug":"chuck-close-by-eric-fischl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/09\/chuck-close-by-eric-fischl\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Close by Eric Fischl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thinking about what to write about today, I remembered\u00a0Eric Fischl.<\/a> When I was in art school he was one of my favourite painters, but I don’t hear much about him so I tend not to think that much about him. Imagine my surprise, given writing about Chuck Close yesterday<\/a>, that Fischl recently (ish) painted Chuck Close’s portrait.<\/p>\n

\"Eric

Eric Fischl – Chuck and Sienna (2012 Oil on Linen 82×68′ )<\/p><\/div>\n

There is something charmingly meta about paintings of paintings.<\/p>\n

\"Eric

Eric Fischl – Chuck and Sienna detail<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s good to see that Fischl is still painting, regardless of all the critics’ blithe assertions that painting is dead. Screw them. More of Eric Fischl’s work can be seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thinking about what to write about today, I remembered\u00a0Eric Fischl. When I was in art school he was one of my favourite painters, but I don’t hear much about him so I tend not to think that much about him….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[348,129],"tags":[294,227,175,374,128,375,127,315],"class_list":["post-2029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-art-2","category-painters","tag-american-artist","tag-american-artists","tag-art","tag-chuck-close","tag-contemporary-art","tag-eric-fischl","tag-painting","tag-realist-painting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2JDlZ-wJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}