{"id":7492,"date":"2010-07-30T02:16:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T01:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=7492"},"modified":"2025-09-20T23:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:44:40","slug":"the-art-of-jessica-harrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/07\/30\/the-art-of-jessica-harrison\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Jessica Harrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessicaharrison.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/harrison.jpg\" alt=\"harrison.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>left: Maria (2010); right: Dawn (2010).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>British artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessicaharrison.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jessica Harrison<\/a> undermines the saccharine innocence of porcelain figurines in a manner which would no doubt appeal to a Surrealist and black humorist like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jansvankmajer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jan Svankmajer<\/a>. As well as these recent pieces, her website features further contemporary takes on Surrealism including a number of pencil drawings, one of which is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessicaharrison.co.uk\/USERIMAGES\/Dselfportrait(1).jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">self-portrait<\/a> alluding to that \u0160vankmajer favourite, <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Giuseppe_Arcimboldo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giuseppe Arcimboldo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/07\/02\/surrealism-graphic-design-and-barney-bubbles\/\">Surrealism, graphic design and Barney Bubbles<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/06\/15\/jan-svankmajer-the-complete-short-films\/\">Jan \u0160vankmajer: The Complete Short Films<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>left: Maria (2010); right: Dawn (2010). British artist Jessica Harrison undermines the saccharine innocence of porcelain figurines in a manner which would no doubt appeal to a Surrealist and black humorist like Jan Svankmajer. As well as these recent pieces, her website features further contemporary takes on Surrealism including a number of pencil drawings, one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/07\/30\/the-art-of-jessica-harrison\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Jessica Harrison&#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":[2,41,18],"tags":[1508,86,375,1579],"class_list":["post-7492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-sculpture","category-surrealism","tag-arcimboldo","tag-barney-bubbles","tag-jan-svankmajer","tag-jessica-harrison"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1WQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492","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=7492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}