Crowds flock to Calgary studio for glimpse of relic Court Painter’s painting arm

Sunday Artists flocked to Court Painter’s studio on Sunday, where the bare painting arm of Court Painter was flexed and on display .

Thousands of Calgary’s art faithful flocked to the Inglewood studio on Sunday for the rare opportunity to see the 76-year old relic and his painting arm.

Devotees shed tears and prayed for rain as they lined up for the opportunity to touch the arm of Court Painter, an artist whose masterworks have  blessed thousands of fans around the world since way back when.

It was simply a mad media scene!

Artist CC (name available upon request)said he was thankful for the opportunity to share this experience with his svelte and  talented partner Ms. D.

“It just makes it so real. This relic of a painter exists and shares his love for staging publicity stunts to tease the art market all over the world…I am always on the lookout for pointers” he said.

Court Painter’s multi tasking painting arm is revered particularly at the Ship & Anchor where he is able to hoist a few on a regular basis.

Press Attache A Hardon MacKay in a sonorous voice mentioned that,”For local portrait painters, their reverence to the honorable relic Court Painter and his arm is very physical, very tangible,” he said, explaining that the veneration of relics like Court Painter is a concrete way for devotees to experience their faith in spitting images rendered  while scoffing wine and wonder bread during the reception.

Crowds gathered at Court Painter’s studio to see the painting arm of Court Painter while taking the opportunity to visit  with the septuagenarian relic.

“It’s very inspiring to say the least, I’m moved every day we open the studio” AHM said and was heartened to see so many young art students at the event. He said it’s incredible that in a way, the Court Painter is “still on an art mission and he ain’t paralyzed yet!”

“He sort of represents this art missionary spirit or impulse that the art market is calling for,” he said.

 

Court Painter in addressing the studio visitors flexed his arm and roared “This is how I brush artfully , not without many struggles and obstacles  however; we all face these adversaries, these struggles with the canvas and in the market place of  ideas and cheap reproductions.”

Comfortably seated Court Painter went on to flex his arm which visitors were able to view or touch as he tried different degrees of arm-bending to most bring out the tricep. He flexed his abs, and especially chest and delts, pressed his arm against his torso to make it look thicker while pushing forward his painting arm against his skinny other arm to bring out shoulder detail.

Court Painter’s painting arm will be flexed again on Monday at The Ship & Anchor pub from 6 p.m. until closing time before staggering back to the studio.

Rex Murphy Feature Article

Court Painter Delivers a plain, serious and monumental promise to give stark art back to the people

(Editors note: Apologies for the long windedness of the article but you know Rex….when he has an opportunity to comment on the Court Painter he tends to become a bit loquacious,garrulous,palaverous and gabby!)

Court Painter is not a fancy pants painter. Rather he’s an artist with a blank canvas, which he delivers plainly yet starkly.

Court Painter just delivered his starkest painting.  It was so far out of the mode as to be unique: unembroidered, direct, with little flourish, brief in its execution. Stark art belongs to the citizens was the message.

It works for the citizens and is not for the benefit of, nor is it owned by those who practice the dark arts of collecting, or who live off the practices of artist message management.

Court Painter hangs in Calgary’s tony art district of Inglewood, the dew-fresh portraitist said to serve his bottom line and the minions of the Great Dominion and elsewhere. And most particularly those Great Do-Minions who have not shared, to a just extent, in the benefits of Court Painter’s technological and communicational advances he utilizes in delivering his images to his elite subscribers list. He calls them, rightly, the forgotten Great Do-Minions. And pledges they will not be forgotten again if they get off their lard asses, sign up for a commission or ask for an autograph.
Now it is a large question whether a pledge of this magnitude and emotional depth can really be fulfilled. In a very real way it is a larger promise, a larger summons than was ever made by Court Painter’s chief competitor CC(name available upon request), ringing so perfectly, as the orator he was, the chimes of Make CP Rich Again and Pocket Change is Accepted. Court Painter’s stark art promise is visceral not rhetorical; it is particular — it is reaching down to the artless, to the hipster-torn inner cities, to those in tasteless torment, and saying this is really the art for all of you.

To the people listening for just that message, and by virtue of the emphatic, convicted tone he adopted in making it a fundamental pledge, he has made what I will call a real promise. Either the anxieties, the disenchantments, the woes of the many unfamiliar with Court Painter’s oeuvre left behind and forgotten are, to some extent, dispelled in the next  years, or they will not be. His success will register unfailingly, or not.

It’s either this or that….something or nothing…or my name’s not Rex Murphy!
Court Painter has no cloud of art semantics or cultural rhetorical overflight to hide behind. He has given himself no cover since he cannot reach beyond single syllable sentences in describing his art. This is not the famous blank slate of whatshisname. Court Painter, in his bare 15 minutes or so of unveiling his stark art made a commitment that reaches to the particular lives and welfare of individual Great Do-Minions, and the measurement of that commitment is thereby in the hands and hearts of every Great Do-Minion to whom he made it. Their lives will either be better in years ahead or not, it’s either this or that…something or nothing …or my names not Rex Murphy and there is no pillar behind which Court Painter can hide, nor I suspect will he seek to hide.

The brevity of the stark art speech had one unintended obscurity, or rather acted to obscure how momentous the Court Painter ascendancy threatens or promises to be. Just how much of a radical shift, a convulsion, that the moment of its occasion represented. Court Painter has virtually cleared the table of portrait art politics as it has been practiced and painted out for over a generation. He has bulldozed the old verities of painting practice. He has shattered the codes of studio politics, routed the tired images of the political and celebrity personages, the culture tanks and art bureaucracy. And he has utterly bypassed the hollow practices of art as virtue signalling and the insidious tribalism of cultural theory and identity politics. And as for the claustrophobic thought-amputations of political correctness, he has, correctly, shown nothing but scorn and dismissal. This is a wholesale reworking of the mode and understanding of modern art studio practice and painting politics in the Great Dominion.

Court Painter offers a vision of greatness.
Most heretically, he has fervently embraced that most basic and condign of art making emotions: patriotism. It has been the style of enervated liberalism to decry, even to shame, the principal virtue of any serious painter: faith and pride in one’s own worthiness in the marketplace of decor and home improvement. Court Painter is not ashamed to be an opportunist. He glories in it. For a whole great swath of Great Dominion opinion, certainly for the enlightened swamis of Inglewood and academia, for all the stale, tired and wearisome activist hipsters,ACAD grads and professional grievance farmers, this is a radical perspective. His unveiling of stark art amounted to a noble, though forgotten, truism. The purpose of Court Painter’s studio is to monetize artistic opportunity in a country starving for cheap,well crafted ,ready to hang art commodities that are plain yet stark .

Court Painter’s painterly address was, finally, as I’ve said, less a gesture in the grand vein, aiming for the quotation art journals , ripe with balanced antithesis and clever formulations, than a distilled declaration of serious intent. Keep it Simple Keep it Stark! The slogan painted above his studio entrance, A Day Without Art Is Like A Dog Without A Bone, has become the guiding theme of his new studio administration. The Court Painter will have the very fight of his life to bring into the studio what he brought to the art marketplace. All the forces of condescension, comfort and high place are against him. But he has a connection to all those others who are not in that cocoon.

This will be a turbulent time, but it has its promise ….or not …or my name’s not Rex Murphy.

“Over the last six years, I’ve developed a sort of unified theory of everything detailing our ever-escalating, almost invariably out-of-synch relationship with the technologies we create, and how their largely unintended side effects have molded our societies and our era. I can boil it down to three dominant trends that demarcate our current existence.

The first is that the online world has vastly outpaced our ability to create political stability.The second: We have a new relationship with time.Third: We’re an ungrateful species.”

Court Painter summoned to paint daring portrait of The Donald after results of medical report.

“Stormy Donald” original /artist Court Painter

Following a closed door White House private painting frenzy ,a source with direct knowledge of the confidential goings on… being a source familiar with the matter….spilled the beans! The source described The Donald as basking in his recent effusive medical report  and reaching out to an old platonic friend who, at The Donald’s prompting, agreed he had quite a rack. She indicated her admiration for the ‘best set of man boobs’  she had ever seen by the shape, size, position, symmetry, spacing, firmness, and amount of sagging and offered up ‘you’re rockin’ a 36 DD+ for sure Donald….I should know’. The comparison was conducted on Skype as both tittered in glee and said they hadn’t had so much fun since the”wink* wink* tighty whitey sleep over.” With the comparison done,The Donald had one of his people contact one of Court Painter’s people who happened to be his loyal yet uncomplaining underpaid Press Attache A Hardon MacKay.

The commission deal was done on the spot with an IOU and within 2 days Court Painter unveiled his new daring portrait entitled ‘Stormy Donald’ with The Donald gushing ‘it’s a bust out masterwork CP ….. eat your heart out Sloppy Steve!’

‘Sloppy Steve’ artist unknown

Eric & Donald Jr. were on Safari and unavailable for the sitting. Stormy Daniels kindly offered to pose at the invitation of her close friend The Donald.

“I understand that there is a problem, but women need to stop being victims. There are two ways for this to happen: One is for men to stop harassing women. Another is for women just to ignore the problem and carry on. That second approach has been tried for many years and was, I thought, successful. Let’s go back to that. It is much easier for women to stop complaining than it is for men to have to change their behaviour and give them the basic respect they accord colleagues they do not want to sleep with.”

Alexandra Petri : article The Washington Post

“Why are we having all these people from shit-hole countries coming here?”   President Trump

Words that tumbled with ease from his shit-hole mouth!

Court Painter is embraced by a ‘very stable genius’ at book signing