{"id":8432,"date":"2019-02-05T16:54:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T16:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bonomogallery.com\/?p=8432"},"modified":"2020-10-12T19:16:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T19:16:09","slug":"the-exhibit-that-painted-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bonomogallery.com\/en\/the-exhibit-that-painted-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Steir | The Exhibit That Painted Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>In\u00a01933, the first time that the Barnes Foundation asked an artist to paint something to fit specifically into its walls, the artist was Henri Matisse. Matisse, who had to be convinced, rented a warehouse in Nice to work on what became \u201cThe Dance,\u201d only to discover, after a first try, that he\u2019d gotten the measurements wrong.\u00a0(In 1990, the early version of the triptych mural was discovered and ended up at the\u00a0<a class=\"ArticleBody__link___1FS03\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mam.paris.fr\/en\/node\/516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne<\/a>, in Paris.) Not surprisingly, the second painter to be commissioned by the Barnes, Pat Steir, asked the Barnes to send their own measurements. Then she doubled-checked them herself. Unlike Matisse, Steir grew up going to the Barnes, not to mention the Philadelphia Art Museum, a view of which happens to be visible from the Barnes\u2019s Annenberg Court, the gallery that now displays the works that she made: eleven seven-foot-tall, black-and-white oil-on-canvas drip paintings.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/culture-desk\/the-exhibit-that-painted-itself\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a01933, the first time that the Barnes Foundation asked an artist to paint something to fit specifically into its walls, the artist was Henri Matisse. Matisse, who had to be convinced, rented a warehouse in Nice to work on what became \u201cThe Dance,\u201d only to discover, after a first try, that he\u2019d gotten the measurements &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonomogallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8432\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonomogallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonomogallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonomogallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonomogallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=8432"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bonomogallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8432\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10134,"href":"https:\/\/bonomogallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8432\/revisions\/10134\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonomogallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8433\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonomogallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=8432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonomogallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=8432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonomogallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=8432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}