{"id":4891,"date":"2010-01-25T18:46:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T23:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=4891"},"modified":"2010-01-25T18:46:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T23:46:20","slug":"gary-taxali-previews-upcoming-art-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=4891","title":{"rendered":"Gary Taxali Previews Upcoming Art Show."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4892\" title=\"gary_taxali_72\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/gary_taxali_72-600x590.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/gary_taxali_72-600x590.jpg 600w, https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/gary_taxali_72-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/gary_taxali_72.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Torontonian artist and illustrator Gary Taxali has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.narwhalartprojects.com\/exhibitions\/2010\/garytaxali\/preview\/\" target=\"_blank\">unveiled a near-complete preview<\/a> of his art show at Narwhal Gallery this Thursday January 28th, entitled &#8220;The Taxali 300&#8221;. A collection of prints on found objects and ephemera, it&#8217;s a wonderful example of his style, influenced by pre-war cartoons and illustrations. A lovely way to spend an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Taxali is notable for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/15\/business\/media\/15illo.html\" target=\"_blank\">having given Google the finger<\/a>, literally and figuratively, when they approached him and other illustrators to produce illustrations for their various pieces of software, with no intent on paying them. In this instance, it probably would have been a very good &#8216;portfolio piece&#8217;, but Taxali decided that his work was worth being paid for, particularly when a (very) large company making lots (and lots) of money was the one who came calling, asking for freebies. Good on him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Torontonian artist and illustrator Gary Taxali has unveiled a near-complete preview of his art show at Narwhal Gallery this Thursday January 28th, entitled &#8220;The Taxali 300&#8221;. A collection of prints on found objects and ephemera, it&#8217;s a wonderful example of his style, influenced by pre-war cartoons and illustrations. A lovely way to spend an hour. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=4891\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gary Taxali Previews Upcoming Art Show.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-cartooning","category-not-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4893,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891\/revisions\/4893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}