{"id":1232,"date":"2018-01-30T13:29:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T18:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2022-05-11T08:50:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T12:50:45","slug":"new-work-from-the-brush-with-bare-knuckles-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/2018\/01\/new-work-from-the-brush-with-bare-knuckles-series\/","title":{"rendered":"New work from the Brush With Bare Knuckles series"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Crowd Pleasers<\/h3>\n
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14″ x 10″\u00a0 Pen and Ink \u00a0\u00a0 2018<\/p><\/div>\n

A new addition to my Brush With Bare Knuckle series. I’m focusing on the faces of onlookers in some of these pieces.<\/p>\n

Expression is everything. Picture a Sunday morning in Great Britain. The sun is shining, the countryside is fresh and peaceful. The crowd gathers and surrounds a makeshift ring, assembled for a bareknuckle boxing event. Each face expresses a range of emotions from joy to anger.<\/p>\n

Jack Johnson<\/h3>\n
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36″ x 48″ \u00a0 Acrylic \u00a0 2018<\/p><\/div>\n

The fighter Jack Johnson was one of those fighters who had crossed over to the gloved era.<\/p>\n

Jack Johnson became the first African-American world heavyweight boxing champion.\u00a0However, as was the case with many boxers, he began his bareknuckle fighting days as a child. He would compete in Battle Royales. These involved blindfolded African-American youths who fought each other until one was left standing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Crowd Pleasers A new addition to my Brush With Bare Knuckle series. I’m focusing on the faces of onlookers in some of these pieces. Expression is everything. Picture a Sunday morning in Great Britain. The sun is shining, the countryside is fresh and peaceful. The crowd gathers and surrounds a makeshift ring, assembled for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brush-with-bare-knuckles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}