{"id":64,"date":"2016-04-01T15:21:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T15:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2016-04-07T01:40:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T01:40:24","slug":"art","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/art\/","title":{"rendered":"Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/logoart.gif\" alt=\"logoart\" width=\"260\" height=\"274\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 100%;\">&#8220;There is something transcendent about original paintings, particularly in the age of reproduction . For me an original painting carries with it the moment of its creation, as if the air in the room and the breath of the artist has been trapped by the paint and stored on the canvas. It pleases me to think that the seventeenth century is infused into Vermeer&#8217;s View of Delft or that the leaves of Van Gough&#8217;s Sunflowers reached up into the nineteenth century, trapped the atmosphere, and preserved it in his graceful use of impasto. \u00a0I am particularly fond of early Illustration art &#8212; created, as it was, with no expectation of greatness &#8212; because each painting is imbued with narrative.&#8221; (Kevin Alexander Boon)<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 40%; padding: 0 10px 0 0; float: left;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_72\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72\" style=\"width: 153px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-72 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/girl-153x300.jpg\" alt=\"girl\" width=\"153\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/girl-153x300.jpg 153w, https:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/girl-768x1509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/girl-521x1024.jpg 521w, https:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/girl.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 153px) 100vw, 153px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Based on a turn-of-the-century soap ad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_80\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-80 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/angel-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"angel\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/angel-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/angel.jpg 322w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Based on another turn-of-the-century ad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_76\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-76\" src=\"http:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/lake-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"lake\" width=\"300\" height=\"320\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Painting of me painting a painting of painters Charles Dickinson and Debbie Boon painting a painting of a boat. There use to be a dragon in the sky and like an idiot I painted over it when people complained.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 40%; padding: 0 10px 0 0; float: right;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_74\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-74 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hand-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"hand\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hand-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hand.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-74\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Repro of a pulp magazine cover.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_71\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71\" style=\"width: 241px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-71 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/clap-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"clap\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/clap-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/clap.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Repro of a pulp magazine cover.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is something transcendent about original paintings, particularly in the age of reproduction . For me an original painting carries with it the moment of its creation, as if the air in the room and the breath of the artist has been trapped by the paint and stored on the canvas. It pleases me to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Art<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevin.boon.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}