{"id":1183,"date":"2014-09-03T09:40:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T16:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2014-09-03T09:48:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T16:48:53","slug":"the-invisible-artist-blending-into-liu-bolins-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/03\/the-invisible-artist-blending-into-liu-bolins-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invisible Artist: Blending Into Liu Bolin&#8217;s Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photoshop previz + paint + volunteers = visual meditations on identity:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5tAXJc_D9HM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Chinese artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liubolinart.com\/\">Liu Bolin<\/a> camouflages himself into urban backdrops using acrylic paint, becoming &#8220;The Invisible Man.&#8221; We went behind the scenes of his blending process at London&#8217;s SCREAM gallery to document his process as he created two new, unreleased works, using director Jack Newman as his chameleon-like subject.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Vice <a href=\"http:\/\/thecreatorsproject.vice.com\/blog\/i-became-invisible-inside-a-liu-bolin-painting\">writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>With his surrealistic photographic performances, Bolin addresses issues at once as personal as they are intrinsically human; Buddhist notions of illusion, Taoist practices of stillness, contemporary ruminations on transparency and the nature of surveillance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/NewImage.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/5tAXJc_D9HM\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photoshop previz + paint + volunteers = visual meditations on identity: Chinese artist Liu Bolin camouflages himself into urban backdrops using acrylic paint, becoming &#8220;The Invisible Man.&#8221; We went behind the scenes of his blending process at London&#8217;s SCREAM gallery to document his process as he created two new, unreleased works, using director Jack Newman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}