{"id":3322,"date":"2009-01-18T09:15:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T09:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/18\/andrew-wyeth\/"},"modified":"2009-01-18T09:15:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T09:15:50","slug":"andrew-wyeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/18\/andrew-wyeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Wyeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arts &amp; Letters Daily has an item announcing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/17\/arts\/design\/17wyeth.html?pagewanted=all\">death of Andrew Wyeth<\/a> (the link goes to the <cite>New York Times<\/cite> obit). This is noteworthy to me because he&#8217;s one of a very few artists whose work (in poster form) has ever hung on my wall. Specifically, this painting, titled &#8220;Soaring&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-f5e2c5a6a8b740e84d7f1159146a1a5a-27783_SP.jpg\" alt=\"i-f5e2c5a6a8b740e84d7f1159146a1a5a-27783_SP.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I picked it up at a poster sale when I was in college, because I needed something to cover the institutional grey wallpaper in my dorm room, and I wanted something different from the standard-issue Dali posters. I liked the general look, but what sold me on it was realizing that the birds in the picture are vultures (not eagles, hawks, or falcons, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulcrumgallery.com\/Andrew-Wyeth\/Soaring_27783.htm\">site I grabbed the image from<\/a> tries to claim). That tells you something about Wyeth, though I think it probably says more about me.<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised to learn of his death, in that &#8220;I thought he died years ago&#8221; way that happens with a lot of famous people who aren&#8217;t frequently in the news. The <cite>Times<\/cite> says he was 91, so he certainly had a good run. I liked what I&#8217;ve seen of his work, which is unusual for a modern artist. The poster got lost a couple of moves ago, but I still like the painting, hence this tribute post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arts &amp; Letters Daily has an item announcing the death of Andrew Wyeth (the link goes to the New York Times obit). This is noteworthy to me because he&#8217;s one of a very few artists whose work (in poster form) has ever hung on my wall. Specifically, this painting, titled &#8220;Soaring&#8221;: I picked it up&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/18\/andrew-wyeth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Andrew Wyeth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,2,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-personal","category-pop_culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}