{"id":4798,"date":"2011-04-04T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/04\/im-leaning-more-and-more-towards-abstraction-i\/"},"modified":"2024-02-01T17:54:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T17:54:28","slug":"im-leaning-more-and-more-towards-abstraction-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/04\/im-leaning-more-and-more-towards-abstraction-i\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4798 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/04\/im-leaning-more-and-more-towards-abstraction-i\/attachment\/4799\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/tumblr_lj4rskpyHV1qcztaao1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/tumblr_lj4rskpyHV1qcztaao1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/tumblr_lj4rskpyHV1qcztaao1_1280-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/tumblr_lj4rskpyHV1qcztaao1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I&rsquo;m leaning more and more towards abstraction. I suppose because there&rsquo;s too much to say. Reading art history &amp; criticism and realizing all the things people thought and still think art should do or represent is slightly appalling. Turning to the news and seeing thousands of images I don&rsquo;t know how to respond to, from political wrangling to vast, terrifying human tragedies, is kind of numbing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I could try to make art about the media age and oversaturation, but I&rsquo;m pretty sure that&rsquo;s what Lady Gaga said her song &ldquo;Telephone&rdquo; with Beyonc<em>\u00e9<\/em>\u00a0was about so it&rsquo;s okay, that&rsquo;s been addressed. Girls got my back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I am arranging colours and textures that might suggest a place or evoke an emotion, <em>if you&rsquo;re lucky, mister<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Acrylic on canvas, 16&quot;x20&quot;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m leaning more and more towards abstraction. I suppose because there&rsquo;s too much to say. Reading art history &amp; criticism and realizing all the things people thought and still think art should do or represent is slightly appalling. Turning to the news and seeing thousands of images I don&rsquo;t know how to respond to, from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/04\/im-leaning-more-and-more-towards-abstraction-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[108,53,42],"class_list":["post-4798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-abstract","tag-acrylic","tag-painting","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4800,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions\/4800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}