{"id":340,"date":"2015-03-05T14:09:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T14:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/canvas\/?p=340"},"modified":"2016-06-07T16:08:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T16:08:56","slug":"paint-its-all-about-the-paint-stupid-contemporary-british-abstraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/canvas\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary British Abstraction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>So after 40…yes 40\u00a0years\u00a0(I started at the tender age of 16 in 1975)\u00a0as an infrequently practicing artist I find myself finally with a studio and time to paint so as of next Monday there no more excuses….<\/p>\n

Artworks 1975 – 2000 ARCHIVE here<\/p>\n

https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/painting\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

What will it look like? Well going by the last completed canvas above from May 2014 probably a bit cartoony, \u00a0a bit abstract, a bit colourful….somewhere along the fault line between Contemporary British Abstraction <\/a>(see show on now in London poster below ) and a crazed version of Disney trapped in a hunting lodge…so think David Lynch and rabbits…paint…it’s all about the paint..stupid….<\/p>\n

So her it is or there it was and now it is or almost now …or something….whir..dribble…splat..thunk….<\/p>\n

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Read Andrew Parkinson’s piece on the show here\u00a0Why Abstraction Now<\/a>\u00a0PDF<\/p>\n

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So after 40…yes 40\u00a0years\u00a0(I started at the tender age of 16 in 1975)\u00a0as an infrequently practicing artist I find myself finally with a studio and time to paint so as of next Monday there no more excuses…. Artworks 1975 – 2000 ARCHIVE here https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/painting\u00a0 What will it look like? Well going by the last completed … Continue reading “Contemporary British Abstraction”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,10,4,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing","category-new-paintings","category-painting","category-studio-practice","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CTH4-5u","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":445,"url":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/canvas\/?p=445","url_meta":{"origin":340,"position":0},"title":"1980 – the contextual background","author":"shaun belcher","date":"April 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to my fellow studio 'inmate' Zenon I being provided with plenty of background reading. Today's tome 'What is Abstraction' by Andrew Benjamin (1996). Interesting but very philosophically dense read which really only gets going when he responds to W. J. Mitchell's attack on Greenburg. Good overview of Greenburg's near\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "abstract painting"","block_context":{"text":"abstract painting","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/canvas\/?cat=24"},"img":{"alt_text":"Richard Diebenkorn Berkeley #5,