{"id":3296,"date":"2008-07-09T01:04:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T00:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/07\/09\/the-art-of-norbert-bisky\/"},"modified":"2011-04-09T04:33:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T03:33:21","slug":"the-art-of-norbert-bisky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/07\/09\/the-art-of-norbert-bisky\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Norbert Bisky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.norbert-bisky.com\/works\/painting.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/bisky1.jpg\" alt=\"bisky1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Der j\u00fcngste Tag (2004). <\/em><\/p>\n<p>At first glance <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norbert-bisky.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Norbert Bisky<\/a>&#8216;s paintings aren&#8217;t so different from those of other artists with a similar complement of shirtless boys, until you notice curious details such as severed heads and limbs or hanging figures. I&#8217;ll be surprised if <a href=\"http:\/\/denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Cooper<\/a> isn&#8217;t a fan. The bland style, rendering innocuous what might otherwise be too grotesque, reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericfischl.com\/paintings\/early_paintings_1\/html\/81_023.html\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Fischl<\/a>&#8216;s psychosexual explorations of suburban America, which may be an influence. <em>Bukkake Tsunami<\/em> below is a worthwhile addition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/04\/29\/the-art-of-ejaculation\/\">Art of Ejaculation<\/a> collection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.norbert-bisky.com\/works\/painting.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/bisky2.jpg\" alt=\"bisky2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>left: Gabi (2007); right: Bukkake Tsunami (2007).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-gay-artists-archive\/\">The gay artists archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/04\/29\/the-art-of-ejaculation\/\">The art of ejaculation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Der j\u00fcngste Tag (2004). At first glance Norbert Bisky&#8216;s paintings aren&#8217;t so different from those of other artists with a similar complement of shirtless boys, until you notice curious details such as severed heads and limbs or hanging figures. I&#8217;ll be surprised if Dennis Cooper isn&#8217;t a fan. The bland style, rendering innocuous what might &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/07\/09\/the-art-of-norbert-bisky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Norbert Bisky&#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":[2,5,44],"tags":[3109,2944],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-gay","category-painting","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-norbert-bisky"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-Ra","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296","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=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}