{"id":690,"date":"2007-05-15T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nolanpro.com\/wordpress\/?p=349"},"modified":"2007-05-15T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T02:12:00","slug":"hoppers-excursion-into-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/2007\/05\/15\/hoppers-excursion-into-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopper&#8217;s Excursion Into Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading an article on early 20th Centurty artist Edward Hopper (1882-1967) in the Winter 2006 issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myamericanartist.com\/drawing\/\">American Artist Drawing<\/a>. Hopper&#8217;s paintings make up some of the most <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nighthawks\">iconic American images<\/a>. The article talked about this painting saying: &#8220;In this image there appears to be no joy in either physical bliss or intellectual pursuits.&#8221; (Parks, 71) <\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064982592438040162\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/690_0.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I believe that great painters, with their intellect as master, have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions. I find any digression from this large aim leads me to boredom.&#8221; -Hopper<\/p>\n<p>It struck me that this sort of intellectualization on emotions is also what fuels me creatively. And trying to craft the perfect scene depicting a gunfight in a church. I abide.<\/p>\n<p>p.s. I just had angel food cake for the first time in my life and it&#8217;s Heavenly.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading an article on early 20th Centurty artist Edward Hopper (1882-1967) in the Winter 2006 issue of American Artist Drawing. Hopper&#8217;s paintings make up some of the most iconic American images. The article talked about this painting saying: &#8220;In this image there appears to be no joy in either physical bliss or intellectual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}