{"id":595,"date":"2012-12-17T17:36:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T17:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=595"},"modified":"2012-12-17T17:36:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T17:36:28","slug":"seduced-by-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/17\/seduced-by-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Seduced by Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I went to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgallery.org.uk\/seduced-by-art\" target=\"_blank\"><em>&#8216;Seduced by Art&#8217;<\/em><\/a>, the first exhibition at the National Gallery to feature photography. What a disappointment! The majority of photography in the exhibition was of the Turner Prize variety &#8211; full of nothing but post-justification of a trivial concept. The comparisons between the photographs and paintings were trite and largely meaningless and showed a complete lack of knowledge of photography on the part of the curators. I find it hard to believe that the comments in the labels had any thought behind them whatsoever. My favourite referred to the photograph of the naked <em>Man with Octopus Tattoo<\/em> by Richard Learoyd (which has been used on the poster for the exhibition) which describes how the tentacle rising up the man&#8217;s back follows and reinforces the curve of his spine. It just doesn&#8217;t!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-596\" alt=\"Seduced by Art\" src=\"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSCF1659.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For a review that states it better than I ever could (and before you choose to part with the\u00a0 \u00a312 entrance fee), you should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/arts\/visual-arts\/seduced-by-art-photography-past-and-present-national-gallery-wc2--review-8273188.html\" target=\"_blank\">read what Brian Sewell thought of the exhibition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I went to see &#8216;Seduced by Art&#8217;, the first exhibition at the National Gallery to feature photography. What a disappointment! The majority of photography in the exhibition was of the Turner Prize variety &#8211; full of nothing but post-justification of a trivial concept. The comparisons between the photographs and paintings were trite and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[13,36,65],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-art","tag-exhibition","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}