{"id":4907,"date":"2010-07-12T14:50:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T21:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=4907"},"modified":"2010-09-03T20:35:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T03:35:39","slug":"art-john-baldessari-designs-iphone-app-to-rearrange-crappy-dutch-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2010\/07\/12\/art-john-baldessari-designs-iphone-app-to-rearrange-crappy-dutch-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Art: John Baldessari Designs iPhone App to Rearrange Crappy Dutch Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Artist John Baldessari<\/a> has designed a curiously dopey iPhone app that allows a user to rearrange most of the objects in a 17th century still life painting called Banquet Still Life<\/em>, by Abraham van Beyeren.\u00a0 Looking at this mess of a Dutch painting is like being beaten about the eyes with a hammer.\u00a0 But Baldessari is promoting his huge current retrospective, Pure Beauty<\/em><\/a>, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.\u00a0 The show is extraordinary.\u00a0 If you are in L.A. between now and September 12, you should certainly go see it.<\/p>\n

The app is called In Still Life 2001 – 2010<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is the still life I came up with on my iPod Touch.\u00a0 I got rid of all the annoying little objects and just kept the good part of the painting. But my main question is, who painted in the parts of the background that are hidden in the original? Baldessari? That would be mildly amusing. Frankly, it would be more interesting than the app. Original missing parts of 17th century paintings by John Baldessari!<\/p>\n

Here is the horrific original painting:<\/p>\n

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Artist John Baldessari has designed a curiously dopey iPhone app that allows a user to rearrange most of the objects in a 17th century still life painting called Banquet Still Life, by Abraham van Beyeren.\u00a0 Looking at this mess of a Dutch painting is like being beaten about the eyes with a hammer.\u00a0 But Baldessari […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t