{"id":4830,"title":"Drag","dimensions":"86.4 x 66 cm","date_begin":"2005-01-01","material":"oil, canvas","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":181,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA/ Flemish Community","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"BK7651_M414","stream_count_app":27,"permalink":"drag--2","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Steven Shearer","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Painting","nl":"Schilderij","fr":""},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/008/553/large/Shearer__0001_Steven__Drag__2006.jpg?1334233606","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe theme of Shearer\u0026rsquo;s \u003cem\u003eDrag\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;goes back to his own environment, to a generally autobiographical atmosphere. For this portrait, the front man of a notorious metal band stood as a model, and the artist refers to the subcultures of metal- and hard rock as forms of contemporary folk art. For that matter, the original photograph may be traced back as an unsightly thumbnail, in \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/4832\"\u003ePuffs\u003c/a\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e(2006), a digital collage that typifies the archival side of Shearer\u0026rsquo;s practice, and is the result of endless browsing through the visual proliferation of the internet. In his painting technique, Shearer shows himself as an assiduous student of Western art history. In this work, too, there are echoes of Bosh, D\u0026uuml;rer, Holbein, Bonnard, Manet, Munch and Toulouse-Lautrec.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eHet onderwerp voor \u003cem\u003eDrag\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;vindt Shearer in hoofdzaak terug in de eigen omgeving en algemeen autobiografische sfeer. Voor dit portret stond de frontman van een notoire metalformatie model en verwijst de kunstenaar naar de subculturen van metal en hardrock als een vorm van hedendaagse folk art. De originele foto in kwestie vinden we overigens ook terug, als onooglijke thumbnail, in \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/4832\"\u003ePuffs\u003c/a\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e(2006), een digitale collage die het meer antropologische, archivale aspect van Shearers praktijk typeert, en het resultaat is van eindeloos browsen doorheen de visuele wildgroei van het internet. In zijn schildertechniek betoont Shearer zich een vlijtig student van de westerse kunstgeschiedenis: ook in dit werk weerklinken echo\u0026#39;s van Bosh, D\u0026uuml;rer, Holbein, Bonnard, Manet, Munch en Toulouse-Lautrec.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1819,"name":"Steven Shearer","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}