{"id":7813,"date":"2014-04-16T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=7813"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:10:11","slug":"artist-richard-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/16\/artist-richard-butler\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Richard Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"

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These moody portraits are the work of painter and former Psychedelic Furs band member Richard Butler<\/a>. His work is particularly striking through the disruption of the subject’s full features. The paint strokes evoke the impressionist style of Manet with a contemporary look.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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These moody portraits are the work of painter and former Psychedelic Furs band member Richard Butler. His work is particularly striking through the disruption of the subject’s full features. The paint strokes evoke the impressionist style of Manet with a contemporary look.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,70],"tags":[37,125,1868,1449,1448],"class_list":["post-7813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-painting","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-painting","tag-psychedelic-furs","tag-richard-butler"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-221","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5384,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/24\/pedro-friedeberg\/","url_meta":{"origin":7813,"position":0},"title":"Artist: Pedro Friedeberg","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"April 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The paintings and sculptural work of Pedro Friedeberg are just wild. 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