{"id":5080,"date":"2023-01-06T15:58:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T23:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=5080"},"modified":"2023-01-06T15:58:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T23:58:19","slug":"michael-snow-prolific-and-playful-artistic-polymath-is-dead-at-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2023\/01\/06\/michael-snow-prolific-and-playful-artistic-polymath-is-dead-at-94\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Snow, Prolific and Playful Artistic Polymath, Is Dead at 94"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/06\/arts\/michael-snow-dead.html?action=click&#038;module=Well&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;section=Obituaries\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">He was a painter, a musician, a photographer and a sculptor. But he was best known for experimental (and often contentious) films like \u201cWavelength.\u201d New York Times<\/a>, Jan. 6, 2023<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI am not a professional,\u201d he declared in a statement written for a group show catalog in 1967. \u201cMy paintings are done by a filmmaker, sculpture by a musician, films by a painter, music by a filmmaker, paintings by a sculptor, sculpture by a filmmaker, films by a musician, music by a sculptor.\u201d And, he added, \u201cSometimes they all work together.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2023\/01\/07\/obituaries\/06SNOW1-print1\/06SNOW1-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&#038;auto=webp\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe artist Michael Snow in an undated photo, framed by an image of the Walking Woman, which was his trademark for much of the 1960s.Credit&#8230;Mike Slaughter\/Toronto Star, via Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was a painter, a musician, a photographer and a sculptor. But he was best known for experimental (and often contentious) films like \u201cWavelength.\u201d New York Times, Jan. 6, 2023 \u201cI am not a professional,\u201d he declared in a statement written for a group show catalog in 1967. \u201cMy paintings are done by a filmmaker, &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2023\/01\/06\/michael-snow-prolific-and-playful-artistic-polymath-is-dead-at-94\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4314,5,7,2148,4144,17],"tags":[4321,4328,4318,4329,2499,4326,4317,4322,4330,4327,4315,4320,4316,3189,3485,4325,4324,3149,4323,4331,4319],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-5080","6":"format-standard","7":"category-arts","8":"category-content","9":"category-faits-divers","10":"category-obituaries","11":"category-photography","12":"category-thinking-about","13":"post_tag-animation","14":"post_tag-annette-michelson","15":"post_tag-canadian","16":"post_tag-cecil-taylor","17":"post_tag-filmmaker","18":"post_tag-hollis-frampton","19":"post_tag-jazz-pianist","20":"post_tag-jonas-mekas","21":"post_tag-joyce-wieland","22":"post_tag-ken-jacobs","23":"post_tag-michael-snow","24":"post_tag-movie","25":"post_tag-painter","26":"post_tag-photographer","27":"post_tag-polymath","28":"post_tag-richard-foreman","29":"post_tag-richard-serra","30":"post_tag-sculptor","31":"post_tag-steve-reich","32":"post_tag-toronto","33":"post_tag-wavelength"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5082,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080\/revisions\/5082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}