{"id":3356,"date":"2008-07-25T01:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/07\/25\/the-art-of-jason-driskill\/"},"modified":"2008-07-28T04:53:36","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T03:53:36","slug":"the-art-of-jason-driskill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/07\/25\/the-art-of-jason-driskill\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Jason Driskill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasondriskill.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/driskill.jpg\" alt=\"driskill.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>left: Hanging (2004); Judging (2004). <\/em><\/p>\n<p>San Francisco artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasondriskill.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Driskill<\/a> paints, writes and creates his own digital artwork and video, often with himself as the main model. This multi-disciplined approach is a rare thing among artists predominantly concerned with gay themes, despite the example set by significant forebears such as Jean Cocteau and Derek Jarman. Driskill&#8217;s work also has a sense of humour, something which never seems very popular in the art world unless, perhaps, you&#8217;re a <a href=\"http:\/\/roqlarue.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pop Surrealist<\/a>. Laugh at something in a gallery and it might be felt that you&#8217;re laughing at the work, not with it. Or worse, laughing at the price tag, and that would never do, would it? (Thanks Jason!)<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>left: Hanging (2004); Judging (2004). San Francisco artist Jason Driskill paints, writes and creates his own digital artwork and video, often with himself as the main model. This multi-disciplined approach is a rare thing among artists predominantly concerned with gay themes, despite the example set by significant forebears such as Jean Cocteau and Derek Jarman. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/07\/25\/the-art-of-jason-driskill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Jason Driskill&#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":[2,5,44,12],"tags":[511,3879,132],"class_list":["post-3356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-gay","category-painting","category-photography","tag-derek-jarman","tag-jason-driskill","tag-jean-cocteau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-S8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356","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=3356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}