{"id":9050,"date":"2019-01-11T00:55:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T00:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=9050"},"modified":"2019-01-11T00:55:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T00:55:24","slug":"find-a-way-to-get-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=9050","title":{"rendered":"Find A Way To Get Along"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Harper says \u2018a smart Canadian PM\u2019 finds a way to get along with Court Painter<\/h1>\n

\"\"CP & portrait of former PM<\/em><\/p>\n

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Former prime minister Stephen Harper\u00a0says Canadian leaders have to find a way to get along with the irascible Court Painter\u00a0because of Canada\u2019s \u201coverwhelming\u201d cultural dependence on the quality of ‘soul capturing’ political & celebrity portraits masterfully rendered by the preeminent portraitist of the Great Dominion.<\/p>\n

\"\"CP & AHM strain to install group portrait\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Harper made his remarks during a panel session\u00a0with former British prime minister Tony Bubbly Blair at the Raisina Dialogue, a geopolitical summit held in New Delhi and sponsored by the Indian government, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cOften, I would go to Calgary on the business of avoiding my constituents however Court Painter was always on a list of people that I was sure to meet and meet we did, often for a new portrait sitting ,\u201d Harper said when asked about his impressions of Court Painter.\u00a0\u201c I know Court Painter well and many of the people around him, like his pushy Press Attache A Hardon MacKay . I think I\u2019ve got a pretty good picture of CP’s pulchritudinous pictorial peccadilloes if you get my drift.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"CP & AHM hold earlier commission of former PM<\/em><\/p>\n

Without mentioning Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by name instead mimicking how he breathlessly talks, Harper said he believes it\u2019s important that \u201ca smart Canadian prime minister\u201d gets a few things right when dealing with the painter who has undue influence in the celebrity and political realms beyond his years.<\/p>\n

\"\"PM Trudeau with sculpture by unknown angry Alberta artist<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"CP & friends at all night movie night costume party<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, a PM establishes\u00a0\u2014 to the best of his ability\u00a0\u2014 a good personal relationship with Court Painter, regardless of that portraitist’s abrasive personality and \u00a0non stop party till you drop lifestyle,\u201d said Harper.<\/p>\n

\"\"2 local artists lovingly handle CP self portraits<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSecondly, a smart prime minister of Canada\u00a0\u2014 because we can often be off the radar in Court Painter’s Inglewood studio \u2014 goes out of his way to show when we are onside with the him against his artistic nemesis CC (name available upon request)and \u00a0how we can be a useful partner in furthering the Court Painter’s potential global participation in international Biennales because that\u2019s ultimately in our interests.<\/p>\n

\"\"CP & CC (name available upon request)in rare photo<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you do those two things correctly, that is the basis on which you can then respectfully disagree when you need to and believe me disagreement with Court Painter is inevitable because as Ezra has pointed out he is a pinko post modern perfectionist,a know it all and an analog nerd.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Ezra & former PM in strategy session<\/em><\/p>\n

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Stephen Harper says \u2018a smart Canadian PM\u2019 finds a way to get along with Court Painter CP & portrait of former PM Former prime minister Stephen Harper\u00a0says Canadian leaders have to find a way to get along with the irascible Court Painter\u00a0because of Canada\u2019s \u201coverwhelming\u201d cultural dependence on the quality of ‘soul capturing’ political & … Continue reading “Find A Way To Get Along”<\/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-9050","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\/9050","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=9050"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9068,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9050\/revisions\/9068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}