{"id":5006,"date":"2009-07-26T09:30:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T18:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/?p=5006"},"modified":"2009-07-26T09:30:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T18:00:34","slug":"weekly-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/weekly-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been going out to local farms for an internship program I coordinate and am always struck by the abundance of food and produce. So this painting has some basis in the concept of fruitful fields.<br \/>\nI also listen to jazz or classical music while I paint and this was conceived while listening to &#8216;Smile&#8217; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradmehldau.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brad Mehldau<\/a> from his 2004 &#8216;Anything Goes&#8217; CD.<\/p>\n<p>Originally written by Charlie Chaplin in 1936 for his film <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Smile_(Charlie_Chaplin_song)\" target=\"_blank\">Modern Times<\/a>, this song has become a popular standard. Mehldau interprets the <a href=\"*http:\/\/jazztimes.com\/articles\/14626-anything-goes-brad-mehldau\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;spiritual breakthrough&#8217;<\/a> that Chaplin wrote about during the depression, but it&#8217;s never sappy or maudlin.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fields of Plenty (or Smile), 12&#8243;x12&#8243; oil on canvas panel 2009<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/fieldsofplenty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5007\" title=\"Fields of Plenty (or Smile)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/fieldsofplenty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/fieldsofplenty.jpg 449w, https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/fieldsofplenty-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been going out to local farms for an internship program I coordinate and am always struck by the abundance of food and produce. So this painting has some basis in the concept of fruitful fields. I also listen to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/weekly-painting\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[290,27,1714,630,649,314,669,545,536,469,543,648,307,313,670],"class_list":["post-5006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-work","category-paintings","tag-abstract","tag-art","tag-painting-drawing-conceptual","tag-artwork","tag-contemporary","tag-contemporary-art","tag-fields","tag-fine-art","tag-landscape","tag-nature","tag-oil","tag-oil-on-canvas","tag-original-oil","tag-original-painting","tag-summer-paintings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5006"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5013,"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions\/5013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}