{"id":316,"date":"2011-08-25T03:55:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T03:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=316"},"modified":"2011-09-18T21:36:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T21:36:12","slug":"can-less-be-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"Can less be more?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_317\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Commerce-Midway-V-21-x-28-in.-on-paper1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-317\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-317\" title=\"Commerce (Midway V)  21 x 28 in.- on paper\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Commerce-Midway-V-21-x-28-in.-on-paper1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Commerce-Midway-V-21-x-28-in.-on-paper1.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Commerce-Midway-V-21-x-28-in.-on-paper1-300x218.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Commerce-Midway-V-21-x-28-in.-on-paper1-411x300.jpg 411w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Farrell - Commerce - 2007 - 53 x 71 cm - 21 x 28 in - mixed media on paper<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Can less be more?\u00a0 I have been wrestling with this consideration for years, and I think the answer is yes, if the artist is sincere!<\/p>\n<p>A good example is the painting &#8220;Commerce&#8221; which was a response to watching the\u00a0 touring boats in Paris, and the regimentation of passing at the midway point of their scheduled routines.<\/p>\n<p>I was very concerned with loosing the reason for the painting for the sake of detail.\u00a0 I want to show the act of passing more than what is passing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure this process of reducing is as interesting for the viewer as well and there is a very fine line between success or failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can less be more?\u00a0 I have been wrestling with this consideration for years, and I think the answer is yes, if the artist is sincere! A good example is the painting &#8220;Commerce&#8221; which was a response to watching the\u00a0 touring &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=316\">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":[],"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}