{"id":1732,"date":"2010-05-17T18:39:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T01:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/05\/after_max_beckmann_-_birds_in\/"},"modified":"2010-05-17T18:39:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T01:39:17","slug":"after_max_beckmann_-_birds_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/05\/after_max_beckmann_-_birds_in.html","title":{"rendered":"After Max Beckmann – birds in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

The content in painting is always the painting, the question being not who but how. That’s why it’s possible for a painter to tip his hat to Max Beckmann<\/a> with a bird painting even though Beckmann concentrated on the human, not the avian.

<\/i>Max Beckmann, Double Portrait
\n1946
\nOil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston<\/i> (Image via<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"maxbeckmanndouble.jpg\" <\/i>Beckmann, Still Life With Fallen Candles, oil\/canvas 1929<\/i> Detroit Institute of the Arts<\/i> (Image via<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"maxbeckmanncandle.jpg\"Brooklyn’s Andrew Keating<\/a> picked up on Beckmann’s essential qualities and spun them into a feathered form whose fluid simplicity makes it contemporary. Keating’s bird is contemporary
\nwith an early 20th-Century heart. Beckmann’s rough paint handling is
\nthere, his coarse intensity and bursts of bright
\ntonalities.
\n
<\/i>Keating Lucy, oil\/linen, 2009  9 x 12 inches<\/i><\/p>\n

\"andrewkeatingbird.jpg\"Beckmann wasn’t an abstract artist either. Seattle’s Robert
\nC. Jones<\/a> takes a balcony lattice abstracted from Matisse and painted it as Beckmann might have, with black soiling his red silks.<\/p>\n

Jones, Mexico Red, 2009 oil\/canvas 20 x 16 inches<\/i><\/p>\n

\"robertjonesred.jpg\"<\/a> In painting, the new has roots in the old or it doesn’t matter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The content in painting is always the painting, the question being not who but how. That’s why it’s possible for a painter to tip his hat to Max Beckmann with a bird painting even though Beckmann concentrated on the human, not the avian. Max Beckmann, Double Portrait 1946 Oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, […]<\/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-1732","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\/1732","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=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}