{"id":922,"date":"2012-01-21T07:53:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T07:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=922"},"modified":"2012-01-21T17:52:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T17:52:38","slug":"gauguin-shape-motifs-and-abstraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=922","title":{"rendered":"Gauguin &#8211; (Shape Motifs and Abstraction)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_923\" style=\"width: 649px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/P1195108-reduced.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-923\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-923\" title=\"P1195108-reduced\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/P1195108-reduced.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/P1195108-reduced.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/P1195108-reduced-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Gauguin - Still Life with Three Puppies - 1888 - 92 x 63 cm - oil on wood<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gauguin has shown us in this playful still life how rhythm and harmony can be provided by repeating shapes in a composition.\u00a0 In this painting he uses ovals to provide a wonderful dance for the viewer&#8217;s perusal.\u00a0 Even the table is an oval.\u00a0 There are many and it is not necessary to count them.\u00a0 What&#8217;s important is knowing that we respond to the harmony of the shapes before we take in the information.<\/p>\n<p>Gauguin&#8217;s brilliant play with the shadows is also wonderful and he is abstracting to refine the composition.\u00a0 The light source seems to be coming from the top right but where are the shadows of the three goblets and the puppy&#8217;s <em>(with the orange oval representing it&#8217;s ear)<\/em> rear left leg?\u00a0 The reason for their omission is they would disrupt the harmony of the composition.\u00a0 And in the hands of a master like Gauguin, we accept these sophisticated considerations<\/p>\n<p>Abstraction permits us to interpret, which engages and invites us to participate with the artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gauguin has shown us in this playful still life how rhythm and harmony can be provided by repeating shapes in a composition.\u00a0 In this painting he uses ovals to provide a wonderful dance for the viewer&#8217;s perusal.\u00a0 Even the table &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=922\">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":[7,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}