{"id":4636,"date":"2015-10-21T23:20:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T03:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/?p=4636"},"modified":"2024-12-27T16:34:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T20:34:44","slug":"arthur-aileen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/arthur-aileen\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur \/ Aileen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Arthur<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4631\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1-placing-guns-in-the-hands-of-artists-body-image-1416849524.jpg\" alt=\"1-placing-guns-in-the-hands-of-artists-body-image-1416849524\" width=\"1000\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1-placing-guns-in-the-hands-of-artists-body-image-1416849524.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1-placing-guns-in-the-hands-of-artists-body-image-1416849524-590x391.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1-placing-guns-in-the-hands-of-artists-body-image-1416849524-700x463.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1-placing-guns-in-the-hands-of-artists-body-image-1416849524-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1-placing-guns-in-the-hands-of-artists-body-image-1416849524-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2014<br \/>\nconcrete, two Colt .38 caliber revolvers<br \/>\n\u200b67 x 12 x 12 inches<\/p>\n<p>This is a Looking (down the barrel) Portrait of infamous killer mobster, Arthur Flegenheimer, AKA &#8220;Dutch Schultz&#8221;. Historical criminals like him, with their guns and larger than life notorious behavior, contribute much to the American fascination with guns, violence, and gangster attitude. The barrels of two .38 Caliber Colt &#8220;Specials&#8221; form the empty deadly eyes while the grips of the guns emerge from the back of the head.  The guns are locked in this portrait  of concrete, a commentary how guns are embedded deep and dense in the head of our own culture.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/300_arthur_mel-chin.jpg\" alt=\"300_arthur_mel-chin\" width=\"700\" height=\"978\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/300_arthur_mel-chin.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/300_arthur_mel-chin-590x824.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/300_arthur_mel-chin-107x150.jpg 107w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/chin_arthur_2.jpg\" alt=\"chin_arthur_2\" width=\"370\" height=\"555\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/chin_arthur_2.jpg 370w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/chin_arthur_2-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aileen<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/aileen-mel-chin.jpeg\" alt=\"aileen-mel-chin\" width=\"869\" height=\"580\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/aileen-mel-chin.jpeg 869w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/aileen-mel-chin-590x394.jpeg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/aileen-mel-chin-700x467.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/aileen-mel-chin-150x100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/aileen-mel-chin-768x513.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 869px) 100vw, 869px\" \/><br \/>\n2015<br \/>\nconcrete, Hi-Standard .22 revolver<br \/>\n64 x 12 x 12 inches<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Chin_guns_sm.jpg\" alt=\"chin_guns_sm\" width=\"569\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Chin_guns_sm.jpg 569w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Chin_guns_sm-107x150.jpg 107w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur 2014 concrete, two Colt .38 caliber revolvers \u200b67 x 12 x 12 inches This is a Looking (down the barrel) Portrait of infamous killer mobster, Arthur Flegenheimer, AKA &#8220;Dutch Schultz&#8221;. Historical criminals like him, with their guns and larger than life notorious behavior, contribute much to the American fascination with guns, violence, and gangster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,41,75,26,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d","category-sculpture","category-surrealism","category-themes","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4636"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6614,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions\/6614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}