{"id":398,"date":"2009-11-27T14:51:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T23:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/?p=398"},"modified":"2009-11-27T14:52:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T23:52:51","slug":"todays-modern-art-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/2009\/11\/27\/todays-modern-art-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Modern Art Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"On Kawara\" src=\"http:\/\/cloud.hauserwirth.com\/documents\/ul0ybXEq9LHN6B568wHYqBCImBQ3n6ylLpC0Kn7Pp0f5XvOpNr\/medium\/kawar394161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"272\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>On Kawara is one awesome artist. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>His on-going project of date paintings are a record of time and life but it uses nothing personal. One morning he wakes up and says, &#8220;today I will paint.&#8221; He proceeds to paint the date of the current day. If he doesn&#8217;t finish it by the end of the day then he throws the painting away. These paintings record his life without involving his life- it only has the date. There is no element of the day- just the date.<\/p>\n<p>The paintings weren&#8217;t all the same either. Some were painted in red and if he was in a different country that wrote the date differently than what we are accustomed to, he would write the date in their form. Most of these were made in the late 60&#8217;s and early 70&#8217;s and show how art no longer depended on being visual. Which is like a &#8220;Woah, how can art not be visual?&#8221; kind-of-thing. It&#8217;s something simply about vision and you look at how something becomes visual. Deep stuff.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Gallery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robkphoto.com\/content\/4-installation\/13-Kawara1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Kawara is one awesome artist. His on-going project of date paintings are a record of time and life but it uses nothing personal. One morning he wakes up and says, &#8220;today I will paint.&#8221; He proceeds to paint the date of the current day. If he doesn&#8217;t finish it by the end of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}