{"id":23513,"date":"2023-09-13T16:30:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T15:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=23513"},"modified":"2023-09-13T16:30:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T15:30:07","slug":"the-art-of-jordan-belson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2023\/09\/13\/the-art-of-jordan-belson\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Jordan Belson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/belson1.jpg\" alt=\"belson1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Target (Spectrum) (c.1953).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The static art, that is. When you read about Jordan Belson&#8217;s abstract films there&#8217;s occasionally some mention of his artworks but these haven&#8217;t always been easy to see. This situation has changed recently thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jordanbelson.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a dedicated Belson website<\/a> which includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jordanbelson.info\/artwork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a gallery section<\/a> for drawings, pastels, paintings and his collage landscapes. Landscapes aside, most of these are also abstract pieces, which doesn&#8217;t come as much of a surprise, and very good they are too. In addition, the site has seven of Belson&#8217;s films available for viewing which may not be everything but it&#8217;s an improvement on <a href=\"https:\/\/re-voir.com\/shop\/en\/jordan-belson-dvd\/75-jordan-belson-5-essential-films.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the sole Belson DVD<\/a> which only features five films. This is all very positive, here&#8217;s hoping the site stays around. (<em>Thanks to Stephen for the tip!<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/belson2.jpg\" alt=\"belson2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Nebula (1965).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/belson3.jpg\" alt=\"belson3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Thoughtform (2001).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/themed-archive-pages\/the-abstract-cinema-archive\/\">The abstract cinema archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Target (Spectrum) (c.1953). The static art, that is. When you read about Jordan Belson&#8217;s abstract films there&#8217;s occasionally some mention of his artworks but these haven&#8217;t always been easy to see. This situation has changed recently thanks to a dedicated Belson website which includes a gallery section for drawings, pastels, paintings and his collage landscapes. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2023\/09\/13\/the-art-of-jordan-belson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Jordan Belson&#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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,2,7,44],"tags":[2864],"class_list":["post-23513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract-cinema","category-art","category-film","category-painting","tag-jordan-belson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-67f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23513","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=23513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}