{"id":5937,"date":"2009-08-19T02:43:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T01:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=5937"},"modified":"2009-08-19T04:22:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T03:22:21","slug":"the-art-of-michael-dotson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/08\/19\/the-art-of-michael-dotson\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Michael Dotson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michael-dotson.com\/artwork\/896130_Dream_House_3.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dotson.jpg\" alt=\"dotson.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Dream House #3 (2009).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Many of <a href=\"http:\/\/michael-dotson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Dotson<\/a>&#8216;s vivid acrylic paintings would make good illustrations for JG Ballard books or for some of his more hallucinatory short stories. Not all of these stylised urban landscapes and empty sports arenas have the requisite latent menace to be truly Ballardian but the anomalous black pyramid in <a href=\"http:\/\/michael-dotson.com\/artwork\/896130_Dream_House_3.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dream House #3<\/em><\/a> carries a weight of sinister implication. <a href=\"http:\/\/michael-dotson.com\/artwork\/55670_Pseunami.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pseunami<\/em><\/a> (2005), meanwhile, depicts a vibrantly abstracted catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Core 77<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/04\/21\/ballard-and-the-painters\/\" target=\"_self\">Ballard and the painters<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/09\/15\/avaf-at-mao-mag\/\" target=\"_self\">AVAF at Mao Mag<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dream House #3 (2009). Many of Michael Dotson&#8216;s vivid acrylic paintings would make good illustrations for JG Ballard books or for some of his more hallucinatory short stories. Not all of these stylised urban landscapes and empty sports arenas have the requisite latent menace to be truly Ballardian but the anomalous black pyramid in Dream &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/08\/19\/the-art-of-michael-dotson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Michael Dotson&#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":[8,2,42,44],"tags":[792,137,653],"class_list":["post-5937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-painting","tag-ballardian","tag-jg-ballard","tag-michael-dotson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1xL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937","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=5937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}