{"id":5240,"date":"2017-12-11T01:17:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T01:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=5240"},"modified":"2019-03-26T22:11:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T22:11:41","slug":"battle-for-self-preservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=5240","title":{"rendered":"Battle for Self Preservation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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All images accompanying this hard hitting article have been released from herein private files of the Court Painter Archives and are meant to enlighten not illustrate. Any association between text and image is purely coincidental and cannot be litigated.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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INSIDE Court Painter’s
HOUR-BY-HOUR
BATTLE FOR
SELF-PRESERVATION<\/h1>\n

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With a brush as his Excalibur, Court Painter
takes on his doubters, powered by long spells
of smoke breaks and many red wines. But if
Court Painter has yet to bend the free market art world to
his will, he is at least wrestling it to a draw.<\/p>\n

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Inglewood \u2014 Around 5:30 each morning,Court Painter\u00a0wakes and tunes into the television precariously balanced on an easel in a corner of the debris strewn master studio. After watching reruns of the Friendly Giant and Tugboat Annie ,he flips to CNN for news, moves to \u201cFox & Friends\u201d for comfort and messaging ideas, and sometimes watches MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d to watch Rude Joe and Meek Mika because, unidentified sources suspect, it fires him up for the day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Energized, infuriated \u2014 often a gumbo of both \u2014Court Painter grabs his iPhone or lettering brush. Sometimes he paints and tweets while propped on his straw filled pillow, according to Press Attache A Hardon MacKay. Other times he doodles or tweets from the loo next door, watching another B&W television set. Less frequently, he makes his way up the hall to the ornate Masterpiece Room \u00a0festooned with unsold ‘art products’, sometimes dressed for the day in a stylish smock, sometimes still in his long johns with the flap flapping in the breeze , reminiscent of an untamed bohemian dandy, where he begins his official and unofficial calls.<\/p>\n

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Court Painter, each year is redefining what it means to be the preeminent portraitist of the Great Dominion. He has pudgy friends in the local political circus. He sees the highest painter position in the land much as he did the night of his stunning painting victory by popular vote over \u00a0his nemesis : techno paint pusher CC (name available upon request)\u2014 as a prize he must fight to protect every waking moment clutching his favourite brush in his exquisitely manicured hand as his Excalibur. Despite all his bluster, he views himself less as a titan dominating the art world stage than a maligned outsider engaged in a struggle to be taken seriously, according to interviews with 1 mental health adviser, 2 Ship & Anchor barflys, a \u00a0Facebook friend and a surviving member of the Tim Hortons retired Sunday painter group.However no one from the local carnival would vouch for him without an upfront fee.<\/p>\n

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For Court Painter, every day is a test of how to mentor by example aspiring artists, not just his non practitioner fan faction but \u00a0balancing the competing interests of money grubbing and real good rendering. For Court Painter, every day is an hour-by-hour battle for self-preservation. He still relitigates last year\u2019s peoples choice award as Best Darn Dabbler (beating out his nemesis CC (name available upon request), convinced that there\u00a0\u00a0is a plot to delegitimize and dethrone him. On a prominent studio wall , colour coded maps highlight the locations of all the famous politician and celebrity commissions he has painted: \u00a0noting that he treated them all \u00a0with equal artistic verve and has been acknowledged by all with a chronic lack of compensation.<\/p>\n

\"\"CC (name available upon request) seen typically smoozing with unidentified couple and a local beauty.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Before establishing his Inglewood studio in partnership with \u00a0 firebrand Press Attache A Hardon MacKay, Court Painter told top studio assistants to think of each Court Painter day as an episode in a television show in which he vanquishes art rivals. A Hardon MacKay estimates that Court Painter spends at least four hours a day, and sometimes as much as twice that, in front of a television, sometimes with the volume muted, marinating in the no-holds-barred wars of How to Paint Drapery and Hands , Etc. on YouTube \u00a0channels and gets all fired up to meet each private studio tour and conflict filled day.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe feels like there\u2019s an effort to undermine his painting style and that stealing images and ideas from the internet allegations are unfounded,\u201d said A Hardon MacKay who has spent almost as much time with the Court Painter as his buddies at the Ship & Anchor pub. \u201cHe believes passionately that the conceptual left and the art media are out to destroy him. The way he got here is fighting back,cussing \u00a0and counterpunching into his open palm.He sometimes reverts to Booze,Women & Movies as a diversion.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Court Painter accompanies on piano CC(name available upon request) as he stands waiting for someone to notice him.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem he\u2019s going to face,\u201d AHM added, \u201cis there\u2019s a difference between running a start up art studio and playing in the big free market leagues like his nemesis \u00a0CC (name available upon request). You\u2019ve got to find that sweet spot between being an art pugilist and maintaining the precarious position of preeminent portraitist of the Great Dominion and environs.\u201d<\/p>\n

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All images accompanying this hard hitting article have been released from herein private files of the Court Painter Archives and are meant to enlighten not illustrate. Any association between text and image is purely coincidental and cannot be litigated. INSIDE Court Painter’sHOUR-BY-HOURBATTLE FORSELF-PRESERVATION With a brush as his Excalibur, Court Paintertakes on his doubters, powered … Continue reading “Battle for Self Preservation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5240"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17754,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions\/17754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}