{"id":3571,"date":"2013-12-10T14:41:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T13:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=3571"},"modified":"2015-07-15T15:12:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T13:12:11","slug":"an-encounter-with-tintorettos-white-bearded-man-driven-by-novelist-thomas-bernhard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/12\/10\/an-encounter-with-tintorettos-white-bearded-man-driven-by-novelist-thomas-bernhard\/","title":{"rendered":"An encounter with Tintoretto&#8217;s White-Bearded Man, driven by novelist Thomas Bernhard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3571 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/12\/10\/an-encounter-with-tintorettos-white-bearded-man-driven-by-novelist-thomas-bernhard\/jacopo_robusticalled_tintoretto_-_man_with_a_white_beard_-_google_art_project-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"97\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Jacopo_Robusticalled_Tintoretto_-_Man_with_a_White_Beard_-_Google_Art_Project-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3572\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3572'>\n\t\t\t\tJacopo Robusti (called Tintoretto), Man with a white beard, 1570-1578, Kunsthistorisches Museum,  Vienna. \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cState-commissioned art is what Reger calls the paintings hanging on these walls, including even the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/culturalinstitute\/asset-viewer\/man-with-a-white-beard\/GQGph5bEL7AKkQ?hl=en&amp;projectId=art-project\" target=\"_blank\">White-Bearded Man<\/a>. The so-called old masters only ever served the state or the Church, which comes to the same thing, as Reger says time and again, they served an emperor or a Pope, a duke or an archbishop. Just as so-called free man is a utopia, so the so-called free artist has always been a utopia, Reger often says. Artists, the so-called great artists, I believe, are moreover, says Reger, the most unscrupulous of all people, they are a lot more unscrupulous even then politicians. Artists are the worst liars, even worse than politicians, which means that the art artists are even worse liars than the state artists, I can hear Reger say again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/theartpriest.com\/?search=%23Thomas+Bernhard\" target=\"_blank\">Old masters<\/a>&#8220;, by Thomas Bernhard, 1985.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cState-commissioned art is what Reger calls the paintings hanging on these walls, including even the White-Bearded Man. The so-called old masters only ever served the state or the Church, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1793],"tags":[952,955],"class_list":["post-3571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-to-be-discovered","tag-thomas-bernhard","tag-tintoretto"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}