{"id":1288,"date":"2009-11-17T16:19:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T00:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/11\/meret_oppenheim_-_all_you_need\/"},"modified":"2009-11-17T16:19:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T00:19:29","slug":"meret_oppenheim_-_all_you_need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/11\/meret_oppenheim_-_all_you_need.html","title":{"rendered":"Meret Oppenheim &#8211; all you need is one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s possible to be famous long past your lifetime on the strength of one piece. No one exemplifies that possibility as well as Meret Oppenheim, whose <i>Object<\/i> from 1936 is at the Museum of Modern Art. &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"meretoppencup.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/meretoppencup.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"263\" width=\"451\" \/>Its origins, from MoMA:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This Surrealist object was inspired by a conversation between Oppenheim and artists Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar at a Paris cafe. Admiring Oppenheim&#8217;s fur-covered bracelet, Picasso remarked that one could cover anything with fur, to which she replied, &#8220;Even this cup and saucer.&#8221; Soon after, when asked by Andr\u00e9 Breton, Surrealism&#8217;s leader, to participate in the first Surrealist exhibition dedicated to objects, Oppenheim bought a teacup, saucer, and spoon at a department store and covered them with the fur of a Chinese gazelle. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moma.org\/collection\/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A4416&amp;page_number=1&amp;template_id=1&amp;sort_order=1\">more<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Its influence continues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennifermcneely.com\/\">Jennifer McNeely<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"jennifermcneleeyfur.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/jennifermcneleeyfur.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"489\" width=\"355\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandradoore.com\/absurd.html\">Sandra Doore<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sandradoorefur.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/sandradoorefur.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"569\" width=\"450\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/swarmgallery.com\/artists2008\/hattori\/hattori_indx.htm\">Taro Hattori<\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tarohattoricup.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/tarohattoricup.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"523\" width=\"433\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s possible to be famous long past your lifetime on the strength of one piece. No one exemplifies that possibility as well as Meret Oppenheim, whose Object from 1936 is at the Museum of Modern Art. &nbsp; Its origins, from MoMA: This Surrealist object was inspired by a conversation between Oppenheim and artists Pablo Picasso [&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-1288","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\/1288","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=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}