{"title":"The Idolaters","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"dailey-illustrated","title":"Dailey (Illustrated)","description":"\u003ch4\u003eWhere the body turns\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eDailey is one of the few women here I have actually stood in front of. Small, stubborn, and considerably tougher than her size suggests.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGet a line wrong where the body turns and the whole thing sits on top of her like a sticker. That is where the weeks went. It is also the only part of this painting I would want you to look at twice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do you do with it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInspired by a photograph of \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/dailey-danique\"\u003eDailey Danique\u003c\/a\u003e. What the painting makes of it is my doing, not hers. 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If you have read this far, you are already picturing the wall.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Willem van der Krieken","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56959506448724,"sku":null,"price":950.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/9406\/6004\/files\/Dailey_Danique.jpg?v=1788028091"},{"product_id":"deelee-black-straps","title":"Deelee (Black Straps)","description":"\u003ch4\u003eTwo different things\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pose first, and then the way the whole thing sat in the photograph Deelee published. That was enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat she is wearing and how she actually is are two different things, and I did not resolve that. I am not sure it can be resolved. There is a light in this canvas that was never in the photograph, and it is there because the contrast needed somewhere to go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do you do with it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInspired by a photograph of \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/dutch-deelee\"\u003eDutch Deelee\u003c\/a\u003e. First of two canvases of Deelee. What the painting makes of it is my doing, not hers. Part of \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/painted-idols\"\u003ePainted Idols\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBuying is the easy part\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photograph this came from was made to be forgotten. This canvas was not. It took weeks, and it will hang on a wall for years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrdering takes a minute. Deciding where it goes is the part that takes nerve, because everyone who walks into that room will see it and decide something about you. That is the real decision, and it is yours. The ones who own these stop noticing the reaction after about a month, and never stop noticing the painting. Hang it anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is one of this canvas and there will never be a second. If you have read this far, you are already picturing the wall.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Willem van der Krieken","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56959506874708,"sku":null,"price":750.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/9406\/6004\/files\/Blackstraps.jpg?v=1788028098"},{"product_id":"deelee-golden-girl","title":"Deelee (Golden Girl)","description":"\u003ch4\u003eReal gold, no paint\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat stopped me in the photograph was the look Deelee gives the camera. Direct, sure of itself, not asking anything of me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNone of the gold in this painting is paint. It is real gold leaf, laid onto the canvas: the elements on her clothing, the hat, and everything behind her. There is no gold in oil paint. Whatever you build with it is a pile of decisions pretending to be something it cannot be, so on this one I stopped asking it to pretend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat I actually wanted was the rest of her. Her breasts and her stomach held my attention longer than anything else in that photograph, and they were what had to be painted. That is where the weeks went.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt ended without a decision. I kept going and at some point everything had fallen into place, organically, with nothing left that wanted changing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do you do with it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInspired by a photograph of \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/dutch-deelee\"\u003eDutch Deelee\u003c\/a\u003e. Second of two canvases of Deelee. What the painting makes of it is my doing, not hers. Part of \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/painted-idols\"\u003ePainted Idols\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBuying is the easy part\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photograph this came from was made to be forgotten. This canvas was not. It took weeks, and it will hang on a wall for years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrdering takes a minute. Deciding where it goes is the part that takes nerve, because everyone who walks into that room will see it and decide something about you. That is the real decision, and it is yours. The ones who own these stop noticing the reaction after about a month, and never stop noticing the painting. Hang it anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is one of this canvas and there will never be a second. 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What the painting makes of it is my doing, not hers. Part of \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/painted-idols\"\u003ePainted Idols\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBuying is the easy part\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photograph this came from was made to be forgotten. This canvas was not. It took weeks, and it will hang on a wall for years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrdering takes a minute. Deciding where it goes is the part that takes nerve, because everyone who walks into that room will see it and decide something about you. That is the real decision, and it is yours. The ones who own these stop noticing the reaction after about a month, and never stop noticing the painting. Hang it anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is one of this canvas and there will never be a second. 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Innocence turns into seduction, seduction turns into wanting. I have never worked out how one image does all three at the same time. It is still doing it, and now it is doing it at you instead of at me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do you do with it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInspired by a photograph of \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/pandora-kaaki\"\u003ePandora Kaaki\u003c\/a\u003e. What the painting makes of it is my doing, not hers. Part of \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/painted-idols\"\u003ePainted Idols\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBuying is the easy part\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photograph this came from was made to be forgotten. This canvas was not. It took weeks, and it will hang on a wall for years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrdering takes a minute. Deciding where it goes is the part that takes nerve, because everyone who walks into that room will see it and decide something about you. That is the real decision, and it is yours. 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The other does not exist in any image of this work, including the one you are looking at now. It is only there if the canvas is in front of you, and once you have seen it the hat and the denim stop meaning what you assumed they meant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI am not going to say more than that. It took me weeks to arrive at it and about four seconds to give away, so I would rather you had it the first way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do you do with it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInspired by a photograph of \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/veronika-rajek\"\u003eVeronika Rajek\u003c\/a\u003e. What the painting makes of it is my doing, not hers. Part of \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/painted-idols\"\u003ePainted Idols\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBuying is the easy part\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photograph this came from was made to be forgotten. This canvas was not. 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I am still not sure that shyness is what it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do you do with it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInspired by a photograph of \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/riae-suicide\"\u003eRiae Suicide\u003c\/a\u003e (@riae_). One of five canvases of Riae. What the painting makes of it is my doing, not hers. Part of \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/painted-idols\"\u003ePainted Idols\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBuying is the easy part\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photograph this came from was made to be forgotten. This canvas was not. It took weeks, and it will hang on a wall for years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrdering takes a minute. Deciding where it goes is the part that takes nerve, because everyone who walks into that room will see it and decide something about you. That is the real decision, and it is yours. The ones who own these stop noticing the reaction after about a month, and never stop noticing the painting. 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That stayed in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do you do with it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInspired by a photograph of \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/sharina-van-der-vliet\"\u003eSharina van der Vliet\u003c\/a\u003e (@officialmissnina.01). What the painting makes of it is my doing, not hers. Part of \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/painted-idols\"\u003ePainted Idols\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBuying is the easy part\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photograph this came from was made to be forgotten. This canvas was not. It took weeks, and it will hang on a wall for years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrdering takes a minute. Deciding where it goes is the part that takes nerve, because everyone who walks into that room will see it and decide something about you. That is the real decision, and it is yours. The ones who own these stop noticing the reaction after about a month, and never stop noticing the painting. 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