{"id":741,"date":"2016-07-31T22:15:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T22:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=741"},"modified":"2016-07-31T22:26:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T22:26:08","slug":"conrad-black-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"Conrad Black Endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conrad Black endorses Court Painter<\/strong>
\n\u2018Honored to be your friend,\u2019 writes The Lord Black of Crossharbour<\/p>\n

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Calgary AB \u2014 The Court Painter hasn\u2019t received too many ringing endorsements from famous conservative elites \u2014 but he\u2019s just received praise from one Canadians know well.
\nConrad Black has penned a piece titled, \u201cThe Court Painter Is The Good Guy,\u201d for the conservative National Review. It apparently delighted his old pal, who\u2019s currently leading national polls for the best darned\u00a0\u00a0portrait painter of the political elite in the Great Dominion.
\n\u201cWhat an honour to read your piece,\u201d the Court Painter \u00a0faxed to the Canadian-born former media baron and felon. \u201cAs one of the truly great intellects & my friend, I won\u2019t forget!\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Lord Black of Crossharbour, his official title as a British peer, retorted: \u201cMany thanks, and all good wishes in helping to clean up the Alberta art scene. Honored to be your friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Calgary art establishment is reportedly mortified by the prospect the Court Painter might win the court of public opinion prize for the best darned portrait painter of the political elite in the Great Dominion.
\nPolls suggest the art celebrity is less popular with wealthy people, and far less popular with those holding an art college degree than with the working class.
\nBut his affluent admirer deployed his considerable linguistic arsenal in defence of the Court Painter, in a piece that featured Latin and French words and such verbal amuse-bouches as \u201cclangorous,\u201d \u201capercus,\u201d \u201creminiscences,\u201d and \u201cmendacious.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nThe basic premise of Black\u2019s piece was that the Court Painter is being unfairly smeared by the art establishment and lame stream art media, whom Black accuses of dishonestly with distorted reviews of his dear friend’s pictorial prowess and paint application.<\/p>\n

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He describes the Court Painter as a threat to the corrupt art system where members of art associations represent corporate hobbyists and media that unfairly tar creatives like the Court Painter.
\nBlack went on to list a number of the Court Painters paintings he described as reasonable. The list includes\u00a0numerous\u00a0flattering renderings of his close friends that by definition include the\u00a0pompous\u00a0personas that inhabit the vast political wilderness across the Great Dominion.
\nBut the list is selective and Lord Black of Crossharbour simply describes his choices in terms of\u00a0clangorous up the apercus and reminiscent of the mendacious.
\nHowever on the whole, he gives high marks to his slum-dwelling friend.
\n\u201c(He) is striking very close to the heart of the Great Dominion’s persisting pernicious political portraiture problem: the corrupt, dysfunctional artistic system and the dishonest lame stream art media,\u201d Black wrote in longhand with a quill pen.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTo adapt Banff naturalist A Hardon Mackay’s old phrase, he has shaken the Great Dominion’s\u00a0pernicious\u00a0political portrait system \u2018by the eyeteeth,\u2019 and it will be better for it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Conrad Black endorses Court Painter \u2018Honored to be your friend,\u2019 writes The Lord Black of Crossharbour \ufffc Calgary AB \u2014 The Court Painter hasn\u2019t received too many ringing endorsements from famous conservative elites \u2014 but he\u2019s just received praise from one Canadians know well. Conrad Black has penned a piece titled, \u201cThe Court Painter Is … Continue reading “Conrad Black Endorsement”<\/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-741","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\/741","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=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}