{"id":746,"date":"2014-05-27T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T08:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/?p=746"},"modified":"2014-05-28T12:52:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T20:52:08","slug":"art-art-art-art-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2014\/05\/art-art-art-art-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Art, art, art, art, book"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_756\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-756\" class=\"wp-image-756 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_14391-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1439\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_14391-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_14391-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Blackwell&#8217;s Art and Poster<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The artist on vacation is not necessarily constantly sketching. I&#8217;m not Jack Kerouac with his small notebook, pulling it out, writing it down, stuffing it back into a jeans pocket. Oh, artists observe all right, and we may take photos for future use. The Midlands of England have perhaps every single tint, shade, hue, and swatch of green perceived and named.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m carrying a fat little sketchbook for when the mood strikes, and on yesterday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mostly sunny day I could have been drawing plein air. But today was all gray rain and drizzle, so art for me came in published book form.<\/p>\n<p>Blackwell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Art and Poster was a visual cacophony of large-format books on art movements, artists, and criticism. I particularly enjoyed leafing through some hefty books on Islamic art.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In my Utah studio, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m currently working on several large acrylic paintings based on the Arab world, several canvases at a time, among them \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The oudmaker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s breakfast,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pruning the bougainvilleas,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why have you brought me here?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the third work in my Rudolph Valentino series. I am fascinated by Islamic border patterns, draped stripey fabrics, and cultural objects such as camels, goats, Arab coffee pots, and musical instruments.<\/p>\n<p>Then it was off to the poetry section of Blackwell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Books, to the right of the World War I poets\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 collections. I found a collection of poet Sylvia Plath\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pen-and-ink sketches. Plath did studies of shoes, wine bottles, boats, houses, and streets with some illustrations looking like prints from wood blocks. Her sure hand and flowy draftsmanship were a revelation.<\/p>\n<p>Art comes in many forms and all weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The artist on vacation is not necessarily constantly sketching. I&#8217;m not Jack Kerouac with his small notebook, pulling it out, writing it down, stuffing it back into a jeans pocket. Oh, artists observe all right, and we may take photos for future use. The Midlands of England have perhaps every single tint, shade, hue, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}