{"id":21951,"date":"2013-01-24T13:28:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T18:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=21951"},"modified":"2018-01-04T15:17:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:17:18","slug":"midwinter-art-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2013\/midwinter-art-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Midwinter Art Break"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The holidays are over, and winter stretches ahead. Sometimes it’s stunningly\u00a0<\/span>beautiful. Sometimes it can be bleak. Sometimes, just boring.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fortunately, painters, sculptors, carvers, collagists, craftspeople and photographers have created glorious art about all the faces of winter. Looking at their work can feel like a mini-staycation, \u00a0a meditation, or a moment of bliss. Isn’t that always true about good art?
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I’ve been collecting winter-themed art on Pinterest<\/a> since last autumn. Eventually, themes began to suggest themselves. Here are a few of them.<\/p>\n

Winter: The Art Composes Itself<\/h2>\n

I named this theme in the spirit of, “The jokes write themselves.” Against a snowy white background, branches and bird footprints can look like ready-made drawings–although, of course, the pieces below were all carefully composed by very talented artists.<\/p>\n

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Life in \u00a0Wintertime<\/span><\/h2>\n

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\"\"<\/a>\"\"Clockwise<\/em>: Todd Hido, #6093<\/a> (2009) \u00a9 Todd Hido;\u00a0Todd Hido, #4124<\/a> from the series House Hunting (2010) \u00a9 Todd Hido;\u00a0Vija Celmins, Heater<\/a>, 1964 \u00a9 Vija Celmins;\u00a0Wolf Suschitzky, Frozen Shirts, Welwyn Garden City<\/a>, 1941 \u00a9 Wolf Suschitzy.<\/p>\n

Ice and Snow Art<\/h2>\n

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Andy Goldsworthy<\/a>, “Ice Spiral (Treesoul),” Reconstructed icicles around a tree, 28 December, 1995.\u00a0 Glen Marlin Falls, Dumphrieshire, Scottland. \u00a9 Andy Goldsworthy;\u00a0Andy Goldsworthy<\/a>, “Icicle Star,”\u00a0joined with saliva, 2004,\u00a0\u00a9 Andy Goldsworthy.<\/p>\n

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For a blizzard of winter art, look here: http:\/\/pinterest.com\/marisa_\/<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n

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The holidays are over, and winter stretches ahead. Sometimes it\u2019s stunningly beautiful. Sometimes it can be bleak. Sometimes, just boring. Fortunately, painters, sculptors, carvers, collagists, craftspeople and photographers have created glorious art about all the faces of winter. Looking at their work can feel like a mini-staycation, a meditation, or a moment of bliss. Isn\u2019t that always true about good art?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":22026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[557,34,94,1155],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64753,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21951\/revisions\/64753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}