{"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":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2385\" title=\"Giacometti\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Giacometti-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"Giacometti\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Giacometti-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Giacometti.jpg 355w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\"><em>The Rumpus<\/em><\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2009\/08\/everything-looks-different-today\/\">short article by <em>Julie Greicius<\/em><\/a> about her favorite book by biographer <em>James Lord<\/em> who recently passed away.\u00a0 His book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/1-9780374515737-2\"><em>A  Giacometti Portrait<\/em><\/a>, chronicles the effort by <a href=\"http:\/\/\"><em>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&#8217;s work and starting over.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quote from her article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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":"<p>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&#8217;s work and starting [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}