{"id":2229,"date":"2007-08-09T02:17:20","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T01:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2008-07-21T16:49:53","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T15:49:53","slug":"the-art-of-maleonn-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/08\/09\/the-art-of-maleonn-ma\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Maleonn Ma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maleonn.com\/images\/colImages\/200759225462.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/ma1.jpg\" alt=\"ma1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Portrait of Mephisto #1 (2006). <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maleonn.com\/images\/colImages\/20075922441265.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/ma2.jpg\" alt=\"ma2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Portrait of Mephisto #5 (2006). <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The carefully-constructed and coloured tableaux of Shanghai-based art <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maleonn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maleonn Ma<\/a> remind me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zonezero.com\/exposiciones\/fotografos\/witkin2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joel-Peter Witkin<\/a>&#8216;s grainier and nastier works only without the body parts or dead babies. The repeated use of Michelangelo&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/73\/God2-Sistine_Chapel.png\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Creation of Adam<\/em><\/a> in contemporary culture is a whole subject in itself.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phantasmaphile.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Phantasmaphile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/04\/01\/behold-the-naked-man\/\">Behold the (naked) man<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/02\/22\/sculptural-collage-eduardo-paolozzi\/\">Sculptural collage: Eduardo Paolozzi<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/03\/26\/michelangelo-re-visited\/\">Michelangelo revisited<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portrait of Mephisto #1 (2006). Portrait of Mephisto #5 (2006). The carefully-constructed and coloured tableaux of Shanghai-based art Maleonn Ma remind me of Joel-Peter Witkin&#8216;s grainier and nastier works only without the body parts or dead babies. The repeated use of Michelangelo&#8217;s Creation of Adam in contemporary culture is a whole subject in itself. Via &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/08\/09\/the-art-of-maleonn-ma\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Maleonn Ma&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[700,564,522,546],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-photography","tag-eduardo-paolozzi","tag-joel-peter-witkin","tag-michelangelo-artist","tag-phantasmaphile"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-zX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}