{"id":14410,"date":"2015-02-03T21:31:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T21:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/blakegopnik-the-daily-pic-this-image-is-not-by\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T18:14:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T01:14:46","slug":"blakegopnik-the-daily-pic-this-image-is-not-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/blakegopnik-the-daily-pic-this-image-is-not-by\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-14410 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/blakegopnik-the-daily-pic-this-image-is-not-by\/attachment\/14411\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nj5wo2Q4Fd1qdr6jto1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blakegopnik.com\/post\/110003243043\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">blakegopnik<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>THE DAILY PIC:<\/b> This image is not by some 1960s acolyte of Ellsworth Kelly or Tom Downing, the D.C. dotmeister. It is not, in fact, abstract at all. It is an<br \/>\nevocation of Catholic communion wafers rendered as the dots from<br \/>\nWonderbread wrapping, and was made in 1968 by the artist known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warhol.org\/CoritaKent\/\" title=\"Corita Kent at the Warhol Museum\">Sister Corita. A show of her work opened Friday at the Andy Warhol Museum<\/a><br \/>\n in Pittsburgh, and it\u2019s  fascinating. I admit to having been ignorant<br \/>\nof Corita\u2019s work, and worried in advance that the show would be<br \/>\nfeel-good family fare. Instead, it turned out to present one of the most<br \/>\n sophisticated offshoots of Pop art that I know, and some of modern<br \/>\nart\u2019s most subtle and witty text-based work.<\/p>\n<p>As the story goes,<br \/>\nCorita, already launched as a tame printmaking nun, saw Warhol\u2019s first<br \/>\nCampbell\u2019s Soup show, in Los Angeles in 1962, and it shook her world and<br \/>\n her art. Instead of becoming Andy in a habit, however, she took things<br \/>\nin her own direction, using commercial lettering as a scaffold for<br \/>\nphilosophical thought \u2013 I love her piece about flesh and spirit that\u2019s<br \/>\nbuilt on the tomato-sauce tag-line, \u201cMakes Meatballs Sing\u201d. Corita<br \/>\nhybridized the corporate logos and texts of General Mills and Del Monte<br \/>\nwith ideas from the Catholic church \u2013 another megacorporation, as<br \/>\nCorita\u2019s work always implied, even though it took her some time to<br \/>\nabandon formal religion. Her work had the same love-hate relationship to<br \/>\n theology and scripture that Warhol\u2019s did to consumer culture; both were<br \/>\n too immersed to divorce themselves from those roots, but too smart not<br \/>\nto probe their immersion \u2013 and ours.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Pic also appears at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/blog\/blakegopnik\/new\/ArtnetNews.com\">ArtnetNews.com<\/a>. For a full survey of past Daily Pics visit <a href=\"http:\/\/blakegopnik.com\/archive\">blakegopnik.com\/archive.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>blakegopnik: THE DAILY PIC: This image is not by some 1960s acolyte of Ellsworth Kelly or Tom Downing, the D.C. dotmeister. It is not, in fact, abstract at all. It is an evocation of Catholic communion wafers rendered as the dots from Wonderbread wrapping, and was made in 1968 by the artist known as Sister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3Kq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14412,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14410\/revisions\/14412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}