{"id":3218,"date":"2017-05-29T01:11:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T01:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2017-05-29T01:11:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T01:11:57","slug":"awkward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=3218","title":{"rendered":"awkward"},"content":{"rendered":"<header id=\"story-header\" class=\"story-header\">\n<div id=\"story-meta\" class=\"story-meta \">\n<h1 id=\"headline\" class=\"headline\">The Awkward Body Language of Court Painter<\/h1>\n<p>Author unknown<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3060 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ghost-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ghost-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ghost-2-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ghost-2-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"story-body-supplemental\">\n<div class=\"story-body story-body-1\">\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"138\" data-total-count=\"138\">Our wispy-haired celebrity art leader is no silver-tongued devil, but that\u2019s O.K. What he lacks in verbal zingers he makes up for with physical ones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"138\" data-total-count=\"138\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2960 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Court-Painter-Spring-Promotion-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Court-Painter-Spring-Promotion-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Court-Painter-Spring-Promotion-1-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Court-Painter-Spring-Promotion-1-768x538.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"159\" data-total-count=\"297\">Body language \u2014 both his and that of the pitiable people around him \u2014 is telling the story of Court Painter&#8217;s latest adventure inside his Inglewood studio better than anything else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"235\" data-total-count=\"532\">When I say \u201cpitiable,\u201d I\u2019m thinking about his Press Attache, A Hardon MacKay, who was the visibly stunned victim of the shove heard round the art world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"235\" data-total-count=\"532\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2895 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/chretien-chokehold.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/chretien-chokehold.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/chretien-chokehold-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/chretien-chokehold-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"249\" data-total-count=\"781\">Please tell me you saw it. Hardon, Court Painter and some straggling unpaid studio interns were arranging themselves for a photograph in the studio lounge. And Hardon, modestly holding his kilt, had the misfortune to be standing between Court Painter and the front of the pack, a lesser hunk in the bossy prom king&#8217;s path.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"249\" data-total-count=\"781\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2450\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/waitlisted-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/waitlisted-266x300.jpg 266w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/waitlisted-768x866.jpg 768w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/waitlisted.jpg 798w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 85vw, 532px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"supplemental-1\" class=\"supplemental first\" data-between-flex-ads=\"true\" data-pre-height=\"952\" data-max-items=\"1\" data-remaining=\"7\" data-minimum=\"400\" data-last-item-height=\"945\" data-flex-ad-adjacency=\"true\" data-post-height=\"952\">\n<div class=\"supplemental-items\" data-supplemental-order=\"0\" data-no-med-rec=\"true\" data-no-ads=\"true\">\n<aside class=\"marginalia comments-marginalia selected-comment-marginalia\" data-marginalia-type=\"sprinkled\" data-skip-to-para-id=\"\">\n<div class=\"comments-view\">\n<article class=\"comment\" data-permid=\"22649324\">\n<header><\/header>\n<p class=\"comment-text\">Court Painter plays a defiant and menacing game from behind his easel. However he folds like a wet paint rag whenever he faces someone like his uber deal maker competitor Chris Cran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"comment-text\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2664\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Court-Painter-Cran-reading-letter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Court-Painter-Cran-reading-letter.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Court-Painter-Cran-reading-letter-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Court-Painter-Cran-reading-letter-768x448.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"comment-text\">Rumour from Tim Horton&#8217;s is that Court Painter is suffering of madness and narcissism. He is considered dangerous for the Calgary art scene and even Banff. He is as wired as a herd of dogs without a bone or an untethered grizzly in a Banff souvenir shop.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-interrupter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2701 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Court-Painter-Dogs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Court-Painter-Dogs.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Court-Painter-Dogs-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Court-Painter-Dogs-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"story-interrupter\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"story-interrupter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3242 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/chretien-chokehold-768x515.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/chretien-chokehold-768x515.jpg 865w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/chretien-chokehold-768x515-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/chretien-chokehold-768x515-768x622.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"story-interrupter\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"story-body-supplemental\">\n<div class=\"story-body story-body-2\">\n<p id=\"story-continues-2\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"257\" data-total-count=\"1038\">\u00a0However in a faux attempt at bluster he batted his Press Attache out of the way, perhaps mistaking him for an art critic or picturing that damn curator&#8230;.what the hells his name&#8230;.you know &#8230;the one with the limp or lump or lisp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"257\" data-total-count=\"1038\">Then, triumphal, Court Painter smoothed his smock, straightened his hat, stiffened his posture and raised his wispy bearded chin. He was ready for his close-up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1993 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/smokig-jacket-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/smokig-jacket-copy.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/smokig-jacket-copy-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/smokig-jacket-copy-768x538.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"257\" data-total-count=\"1038\">\u00a0With Court Painter, struts, scowls and pouts reveal every bit as much as what tumbles from his lips, which is a lot less trustworthy. (Get him to explain Dark Matter and the Mad Hatter) His words can be counterfeit like his artist statements. But his gestures are genuine. So it only makes sense that we lean on them for the narrative of his post-truth portraiture, whose latest, local chapter brimmed with more awkward physicality than a toddlers\u2019 gymnastics class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"378\" data-total-count=\"1416\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2032\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/CP-dancer-2-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/CP-dancer-2-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/CP-dancer-2.jpg 764w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 85vw, 458px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-3\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"371\" data-total-count=\"1787\">The shove heard round the art world was preceded by the curtsy heard round the local fashion world, when Court Painter did precisely what he maligned his nemesis Chris Cran for \u2014 well, one of the countless things he maligned Cran for \u2014 and approached a well known collector with wads of cash poking out of his Armani suit in a pose of deference. Hypocrisy, thy name is Court Painter, and thy knees are bent and thy shiny head is bowed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"371\" data-total-count=\"1787\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2661 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Court-Painter-Seance.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Court-Painter-Seance.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Court-Painter-Seance-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Court-Painter-Seance-768x468.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"307\" data-total-count=\"2094\">Thy sense of rhythm doesn\u2019t exist. Did you see him during that street square dance, not so much rattling his booty as dangling his you know what while he wobbled, like a Weeble, from side to side?<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"307\" data-total-count=\"2094\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2031\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/CPdancer-1-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/CPdancer-1-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/CPdancer-1-768x962.jpg 768w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/CPdancer-1.jpg 798w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 85vw, 559px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"141\" data-total-count=\"2641\">George Bernard Shaw wrote a play titled \u201cArms and the Man.\u201d Someday somebody will write a Court Painter biography titled \u201cHand Me Down Art and the Paint Splattered Man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"141\" data-total-count=\"2641\">That&#8217;s it. 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