{"id":132,"date":"2007-06-13T14:30:06","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T14:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belcheresque.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/13\/how-i-stopped-painting\/"},"modified":"2007-06-13T14:30:06","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T14:30:06","slug":"how-i-stopped-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/criticism\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"How I stopped painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-133\" href=\"http:\/\/belcheresque.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/13\/how-i-stopped-painting\/133\/\" title=\"didcot003.jpg\"><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/belcheresque.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/self.jpg\" alt=\"self.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <em>Self-Portrait oil on canvas 24&#8243; x 36&#8243; 1987<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 1987-8 I was interviewed twice by Goldsmiths College&#8230;.firstly by Mary (Post-partum)\u00c2\u00a0Kelly and Nick de Ville (Roxy Music covers) for the part-time M.A. In the second interview (in my squat\/house on north-circular) I clammed up as they launched a scathing attack on Peter Fuller who had informed most of my recent work then indeed the copy of <em>Beyond the Crisis in Art<\/em> shown below was a virtual template for my work drawing on post Bomberg figurative expressionism right up to Auerbach\/Kossoff. See work at link below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mysite.orange.co.uk\/flyinshoes\/heads\/index.html\" title=\"slideshow\">Horrible Heads paintings Flash Slideshow<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To say\u00c2\u00a0I was dismayed to be attacked by a graphic designer, <a href=\"http:\/\/buy-levitraonline.com\/\" title=\"levitra\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">levitra<\/a>  and a student whose finest work\u00c2\u00a0I discovered later was hanging five bin bags on a wall a la Barry Flanagan was an understatement. Fuller&#8217;s erudition was obviously beyond the &#8216;panel&#8217; and off they jaunted to help launch YBAism. I still think Fuller is some kind of genius and I still think Goldsmiths was not&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>The painting above was stolen by another graphic designer some time later posing as a proto-Saatchi and that was it ..game over&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The picture below is all that remains of ten years painting in ruins in a garage in my home town.<\/p>\n<p>Moral of this story? I have none &#8230;but I was right to not get drawn into their vacuous course.<\/p>\n<p>I did not realise that the damage it\u00c2\u00a0was doing\u00c2\u00a0would last twenty years&#8230;.in all senses&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/belcheresque.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/didcot003.jpg\" alt=\"didcot003.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 24&#8243; x 36&#8243; 1987 In 1987-8 I was interviewed twice by Goldsmiths College&#8230;.firstly by Mary (Post-partum)\u00c2\u00a0Kelly and Nick de Ville (Roxy Music covers) for the part-time M.A. In the second interview (in my squat\/house on north-circular) I clammed up as they launched a scathing attack on Peter Fuller who had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,8,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-criticism","category-art-education","category-art-review","category-painting","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/criticism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/criticism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/criticism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/criticism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/criticism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/criticism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/criticism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/criticism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/criticism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}