{"id":331,"date":"2010-07-09T22:54:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T05:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smouldendesign.com\/blog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2010-07-09T22:54:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T05:54:12","slug":"the-great-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/the-great-escape\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve tried so many times to escape from reality\u2014to break free from representational art. It can be so difficult though. We live in such a object oriented world where we can only see people, animals, plants, machines, and other stuff. Heck, coders built a type of language based upon objects. We just think in stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I know its possible to break from this mind set. The greats like Kandinsky and Newman were able to do it. I went to the <a title=\"Downtown LA Art Walk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.downtownartwalk.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">LA Art Walk<\/a> last night and many of the artists there were able to do it as well. So what is my problem? Not enough practice? Maybe everyone thinks differently and each person&#8217;s mindset gives them an affinity towards a type of art: representational or non-representational. Whatever the cause, I truly appreciate non-representational art for its mystery, calming effect, and challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my attempt of a truly meaningless, stream of consciousness, non-representational piece:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-332\" title=\"Stream of Consciousness 1\" src=\"http:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/blog_07_09_10.jpg\" alt=\"abstract pencil drawing\" width=\"580\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/blog_07_09_10.jpg 580w, https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/blog_07_09_10-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You see a lot of non-representational artwork in modern art. Many in the general public think its a joke because its supposedly so easy to make. I would argue that non-representational artwork may be the most challenging because its so counter our normal way of thinking. <a href=\"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/the-great-escape\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[128,127],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing","tag-art-walk","tag-non-representaional"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}