{"id":1011,"date":"2009-09-04T23:40:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T06:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/09\/takeshi_murata_plays_the_class\/"},"modified":"2009-09-04T23:40:09","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T06:40:09","slug":"takeshi_murata_plays_the_class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/09\/takeshi_murata_plays_the_class.html","title":{"rendered":"Takeshi Murata plays the classics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2005,&nbsp; Taeshi Murata&#8217;s single screen,<br \/>\n4-minute video projection, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gVdpiq4lS0o\"><i>Monster Movie<\/i><\/a>,&nbsp; left other fur-based miasmic abstractions hiding in their hovels. It&#8217;s a straight shot of<br \/>\nadrenalin, full color pulsing around a shimmering beast that<br \/>\nshakes its matted fur to the beat. This video is what Psychedelia<br \/>\ncould have been but didn&#8217;t rise to, colors like rockets coming at you<br \/>\nand shapes emerging from and sliding back into moving seas of radiant<br \/>\nmud.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gVdpiq4lS0o&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gVdpiq4lS0o&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/object>Is Murata moving through the history of art? <i>Homestead Grays<\/i> (below, 2008 still from video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratio3.org\/artist.php?p=tmurata\">via<\/a>) is pixilated Cubism.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"takeshimuratacubis.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/takeshimuratacubis.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" width=\"401\" height=\"224\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Juan Gris, <i>Book, Pipe and Glasses<\/i>, 1915<span style=\"color: rgb(102, 102, 102);\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"juangrisbookpipe.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/juangrisbookpipe.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" width=\"395\" height=\"308\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2005,&nbsp; Taeshi Murata&#8217;s single screen, 4-minute video projection, Monster Movie,&nbsp; left other fur-based miasmic abstractions hiding in their hovels. It&#8217;s a straight shot of adrenalin, full color pulsing around a shimmering beast that shakes its matted fur to the beat. This video is what Psychedelia could have been but didn&#8217;t rise to, colors like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}