{"id":513,"date":"2015-12-05T16:32:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T16:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=513"},"modified":"2016-07-19T16:36:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T16:36:33","slug":"just-in-time-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"Just in Time for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A New Barbie Doll Channels Court Painter<\/h2>\n
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\u00a0on\u00a0December 3, 2015<\/abbr><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\nMattel\u2019s new Court Painter inspired Barbie doll (image via\u00a0instyle.com)<\/div>\n

Leave it to Mattel, the maker of the Barbie doll, to fulfill the Court Painter’s famous\u00a0wish to be plastic.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0InStyle<\/em>, the children\u2019s toy company has collaborated with the Court Painter Foundation to produce a\u00a0Barbie doll that has all of the Court Painter’s signature traits, from balding top and ever present ‘coffin nail’ to the leather jacket and black-and-white striped shirt. It\u2019s the Court Painter as we know him \u2014 with the addition of impossibly long legs, a teeny but plump waist, a disproportionately large ego, and thick, permanent eyeliner.<\/p>\n

Court Painter Will is actually fascinated by Barbies. He painted one this year before he sold it for a small fortune to a naive Calgary collector, \u201cBarbie, Portrait of Me*\u201d (2015), which was inspired by himself and personal muse who incidentally owns tens of thousands of John Wills because of an absence of market. He also painted figurative ones \u2014 women like Ma Kettle and Edith Bunker who are still widely known for their physical images, outfits, and accessories.<\/p>\n

So, what does it mean that the Court Painter has taken the form of a plastic doll that\u2019s hollow through and through? It\u2019s tempting to philosophize about the deeper connection between a toy\u00a0that\u2019s come to represent superficiality and an artist who claims to be a \u201cdeeply superficial\u201d person (despite the complex self published autobiographies he has written).<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s best not to think too hard about it. The doll (and the \u201clifestyle collection\u201d that goes along with it) is just the latest in a string of\u00a0consumer items \u2014 from ashtrays\u00a0to\u00a0designer\u00a0lighters\u00a0\u2014 that capitalize on the selling power of the Court Painter’s iconic likeness and art\u00a0\u2026 or, as the Court Painter was quoted “the Court Painter Barbie,is\u00a0perfect for \u201cthe hip, cool person who just wants something really unique.\u201d Just in time for Christmas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A New Barbie Doll Channels Court Painter \u00a0on\u00a0December 3, 2015 Mattel\u2019s new Court Painter inspired Barbie doll (image via\u00a0instyle.com) Leave it to Mattel, the maker of the Barbie doll, to fulfill the Court Painter’s famous\u00a0wish to be plastic. According to\u00a0InStyle, the children\u2019s toy company has collaborated with the Court Painter Foundation to produce a\u00a0Barbie doll … Continue reading “Just in Time for Christmas”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-press","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}