{"id":15440,"date":"2022-08-09T09:36:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T13:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=15440"},"modified":"2022-08-09T09:36:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T13:36:36","slug":"episode-498-jonah-kinigstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-498-jonah-kinigstein","title":{"rendered":"Episode 498 – Jonah Kinigstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 498:
\nJonah Kinigstein<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I’m not making art for anyone but myself, hoping that maybe somebody will understand, that they felt like I did at a certain time.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>At 99 years old, unrepentant artist Jonah Kinigstein<\/a> rejoins the show to celebrate his new book, UNREPENTANT ARTIST<\/a> (Fantagraphics Underground)! We talk about how it felt to bring decades’ worth of his paintings together for the book, how it captures his lifetime battle in the name of representational art, and how his paintings have changed since our 2015 conversation<\/a>. We get into the inspiration of living near Coney Island, the fun of using Catholic imagery and making a circus out of religion in general, his love of the grotesque, the rage that fuels his political cartooning, the ways the Holocaust echoes in his work and whether he feels he has to be “careful” in his paintings of Jews, how he & his wife hope to celebrate his 100th birthday, and more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go pick up Unrepentant Artist<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Oh, and check out 2020’s Comic Art in Museums<\/a> (University of Mississippi Press), which includes a piece on Jonah and an interview with him by Karen Green<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“I picked the paintings that I thought were the best. And if you make something better, you save it for the next book.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n