{"id":1163,"date":"2009-10-09T15:24:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T22:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/10\/ran_ortner_circling_the_19th-c\/"},"modified":"2009-10-09T15:24:37","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T22:24:37","slug":"ran_ortner_circling_the_19th-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/10\/ran_ortner_circling_the_19th-c.html","title":{"rendered":"Ran Ortner: circling the 19th-century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ranortner.com\/\">Ran Ortner<\/a>, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/artprize\/index.ssf\/2009\/10\/artprize_winner_announced_voters_award_ran_ortner_250000_for_open_water_no_24.html\">won<\/a> the $250,000 ArtPrize in Grand Rapids for a painting of the sea, <i>Open Water<\/i>, could have painted it in 19th-century Russia. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RanOrtnerStorm.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/RanOrtnerStorm.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"126\" width=\"452\" \/>Back then, however, he wouldn&#8217;t have been tapped for the top take-away. Even casual observers would have noted what he owes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcgallery.com\/A\/aivazovsky\/aivazovsky31.html\">Ivan Aivazovsky<\/a>, whose massive paintings of the churning sea go on and on. Aivazovsky would get the cash while Ortner got applause for his skill. Historians would have tagged his work as &#8220;in the school of.&#8221; &nbsp; <\/p>\n<div>Aivazovsky, detail:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IvanAivazovskysea1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/IvanAivazovskysea1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"164\" width=\"492\" \/>Meanwhile, the Financial Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/80835390-aee3-11de-96d7-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss\">notes<\/a> a trend juxtaposing historical and contemporary art:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>October 8 sees the London gallery Robilant + Voena unveiling a show in which young British school artists respond to Old Master paintings. Most have been commissioned for the show and include some startling juxtapositions. A dreamy, sensuous piece by Old Master Ary Scheffer has inspired Tom Gallant to make a flowing paper collage like a fluttering of scarves. Paul Morrison has created &#8220;Ilex&#8221; (2009), a bold silver-on-linen work that reprises the exploding volcano in Pierre-Jacques Volaire&#8217;s fiery &#8220;Eruption of Vesuvius at Night&#8221; (about 1777) and Alexis Teplin&#8217;s brightly-coloured oval abstract painting echoes Fran\u00e7ois Boucher&#8217;s &#8220;Venus Restraining Cupid&#8221; (1762). Prices range from \u00a31,800 to \u00a328,000 for the contemporary works, and from \u00a350,000 to \u00a31m for the Old Masters, who include Meissonnier, Carlo Dolci and Nicolas Tournier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ran Ortner, who won the $250,000 ArtPrize in Grand Rapids for a painting of the sea, Open Water, could have painted it in 19th-century Russia. Back then, however, he wouldn&#8217;t have been tapped for the top take-away. Even casual observers would have noted what he owes to Ivan Aivazovsky, whose massive paintings of the churning [&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-1163","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\/1163","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=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}