{"id":318,"date":"2005-12-31T12:46:39","date_gmt":"2005-12-31T19:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=318"},"modified":"2005-12-31T12:46:39","modified_gmt":"2005-12-31T19:46:39","slug":"de-skilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/de-skilling\/","title":{"rendered":"de-skilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. I don&#8217;t look for skill in art; I look for originality, surprise, obsession, energy, experimentation, something visionary, and a willingness to embarrass oneself in public. Skill has nothing to do with technical proficiency; it has to do with being flexible and creative. I&#8217;m interested in people who rethink skill, who redefine or reimagine it: an engineer, say, who builds rockets from rocks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/art\/0551,saltz,71107,13.html\">Seeing Out Loud, by Jerry Saltz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. I don&#8217;t look for skill in art; I look for originality, surprise, obsession, energy, experimentation, something visionary, and a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}