{"id":19209,"date":"2013-12-03T23:34:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T23:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/blakegopnik-daily-pic-this-is-a-second-of-ad\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T20:12:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T03:12:49","slug":"blakegopnik-daily-pic-this-is-a-second-of-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/blakegopnik-daily-pic-this-is-a-second-of-ad\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-19209 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-daily-pic-this-is-a-second-of-ad\/attachment\/19210\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mx93b5q9p41qdr6jto1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mx93b5q9p41qdr6jto1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mx93b5q9p41qdr6jto1_1280-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mx93b5q9p41qdr6jto1_1280-301x300.jpg 301w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mx93b5q9p41qdr6jto1_1280.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blakegopnik.com\/post\/68912825659\">blakegopnik<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>DAILY PIC:<\/strong> This is a second of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidzwirner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ARpressFINALOct30.pdf\" title=\"Ad Reinhardt at David Zwirner\">Ad Reinhardt\u2019s Black Paintings in the current Zwirner show<\/a>, from the week\u2019s worth that I\u2019ll be Daily Pic\u2019ing. If you were looking at it in good lighting, you\u2019d be able to tell that it was different from yesterday\u2019s choice, but it wouldn\u2019t be easy. Among other things, Reinhardt insisted that his pictures show no trace of their maker\u2019s hand \u2013 traces that had helped differentiate and personalize other abstractions of his era. But he also seemed absolutely keen to make each picture himself, with his own two hands.<\/p>\n<p>If the Black Paintings were about absolutely pure perceptual effects, as critics often imply, Reinhardt might have got better, cleaner, purer results by having them mechanically printed. Handpaintedness is important to these pictures, however, because they want to be in close and complex dialog with all the notably, aggressively handpainted pictures that came before \u2013 they want to be seen as part of the same old conversation. The refusal of the mark of the hand, that is, has more rhetorical power when that refusal is made via the hand of a painter; the abnegation of expressive mark-making is more impressive when such marks are an obviously available, desirable, even inevitable option. (A horny monk resisting sex is more impressive than a eunuch doing so; some medieval monks and priests slept with gorgeous naked youngsters, to test their own powers of resistance. In the 1950s and 60s, that was what it felt like for Reinhardt to take up a paint-laden brush, and then produce an untouched surface.)<\/p>\n<p>The fact of the handmaking of these pictures, which is such an important part of them, is hardly perceptible in their presence. Does that mean that their handmadedness is yet another of the conceptual facts and ploys backing up these apparently perceptual artworks, <a href=\"http:\/\/blakegopnik.com\/post\/68807869899\" title=\"Gopnik on Ad Reinhardt\">as per yesterday\u2019s Daily Pic<\/a>? Or does it mean precisely the opposite: that the paintings demand you do the work of looking and looking and looking \u2013 and only barely finding \u2013 the traces they preserve of the hand that made them, and that worked so hard to hide itself. The eyes take in that hiddenness in a way the mind alone never could. <em>(Image \u00a92013 Estate of Ad Reinhardt\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; courtesy David Zwirner, New York\/London)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For a full visual survey of past Daily Pics visit <a href=\"http:\/\/blakegopnik.com\/archive\">blakegopnik.com\/archive<\/a>. The Daily Pic can also be found at the bottom of the home page of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/newsmaker\/art-and-photography\" title=\"Art Beast\">thedailybeast.com<\/a> and on that site\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/art.html\" title=\"Art Beast at The Daily Beast\">Art Beast<\/a> page.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>blakegopnik: DAILY PIC: This is a second of Ad Reinhardt\u2019s Black Paintings in the current Zwirner show, from the week\u2019s worth that I\u2019ll be Daily Pic\u2019ing. If you were looking at it in good lighting, you\u2019d be able to tell that it was different from yesterday\u2019s choice, but it wouldn\u2019t be easy. 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