{"id":1931,"date":"2010-09-24T22:34:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T05:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/09\/the_david_park_effect\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T22:34:24","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T05:34:24","slug":"the_david_park_effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/09\/the_david_park_effect.html","title":{"rendered":"The David Park effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1949, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Park\">David Park<\/a> took his paintings to the dump. They were abstract in an Abstract Expressionist vein. With a clean slate, he used what he knew about the push and pull of moving paint around to return to the figure. Made of big, blunt brush-and-knife strokes, his quiet moments marked the beginning of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bay_Area_Figurative_Movement\">Bay Area Figurative<\/a>. In 1960, at age 49, he died of cancer. <\/p>\n<p>Almost everyone I know who cares about art and lived in the Bay Area in the second half of the 20th Century considers his work a touchstone. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2009\/nov\/13\/the-tender-art-of-david-park\/\">David Park<\/a> (Image <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocma.net\/index.html?page=categories&amp;product=259\">via<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"davidparkeffect.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/davidparkeffect.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"605\" width=\"450\" \/>In the 21st Century, his influence is everywhere, or, as Auden wrote about Yeats, &#8220;he has become his admirers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.froschportmann.com\/JK_Calamity.html\">Julia Kuhl<\/a>, for that quality of living in inside a head and stuck at an impasse, for the inadvertent tenderness.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"juliakuhlpark.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/juliakuhlpark.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"368\" width=\"502\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterfgross.com\/images.html\">Peter F. Gross<\/a>, for tactile intensity. (Anonymous Russian poet: &#8220;Can I help it if your bones rattle in my heavy, tender paws?&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"petergrosssalvation.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/petergrosssalvation.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"394\" width=\"500\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/whitelead.com\/markmiller\/\">Mark Takamichi Miller<\/a> &#8211; for bodies that own the air around them, without noticing it, and for big color. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"marktmilllerbluefigure.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/marktmilllerbluefigure.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"390\" width=\"501\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/dorschgallery.com\/artist\/16\">Mette Tommerup <\/a>&#8211; What is the opposite of observant? A David Park figure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mettetommerupfire.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/mettetommerupfire.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"374\" width=\"500\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drooel.com\/2010\/01\/14\/brian-burke\/\">Brian Burke<\/a> &#8211; stones in the river, lumpen proletariat&nbsp; in the sky.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"brianburkepark.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/brianburkepark.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"431\" width=\"455\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1949, David Park took his paintings to the dump. They were abstract in an Abstract Expressionist vein. With a clean slate, he used what he knew about the push and pull of moving paint around to return to the figure. Made of big, blunt brush-and-knife strokes, his quiet moments marked the beginning of Bay [&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-1931","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\/1931","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=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}