{"id":2386,"date":"2009-08-31T09:40:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T16:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2009-08-31T09:42:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T16:42:40","slug":"giacometti-painting-a-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/08\/31\/giacometti-painting-a-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Giacometti Painting a Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Giacometti\"The Rumpus<\/em><\/a> has short article by Julie Greicius<\/em><\/a> about her favorite book by biographer James Lord<\/em> who recently passed away.\u00a0 His book, A Giacometti Portrait<\/em><\/a>, chronicles the effort by Alberto Giacometti<\/em><\/a> to paint a portrait of Mr. Lord.\u00a0 The work goes on for days with the artist constantly destroying the previous day’s work and starting over.<\/p>\n

Here’s a quote from her article:<\/p>\n

Lord exposed how much destruction was necessary\u2014at least for Giacometti\u2014to the process of creation. He also captured the complexity of the relationship between artist and subject.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Rumpus has short article by Julie Greicius about her favorite book by biographer James Lord who recently passed away.\u00a0 His book, A Giacometti Portrait, chronicles the effort by Alberto Giacometti to paint a portrait of Mr. Lord.\u00a0 The work goes on for days with the artist constantly destroying the previous day’s work and starting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,137,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-literature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t