{"id":261,"date":"2002-12-15T20:33:14","date_gmt":"2002-12-16T01:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sirianniart.com\/wp\/?p=261"},"modified":"2012-09-05T20:36:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T00:36:49","slug":"african-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/2002\/12\/african-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"African Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am now more serious about art than I&#8217;ve ever been. As time has passed and new inspiration comes into focus, I find myself learning to dedicate more time to developing artistic skills.<\/p>\n<p>The African Angels and African Masks are a welcome departure from some of the more dark and serious subject matter I&#8217;ve done. As always, music often helps guide my directions in art. This new group of work was primarily inspired by the later sounds of Miles Davis. Along with that, I&#8217;d listened to various African music. I tried to avoid looking at African art books. I wanted to use the music as an artistic vehicle for creativity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_slider et_pb_slider_fullwidth_off et_pb_gallery_post_type\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_slides\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_slide\" style=\"background: url(https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/afrangle_13_warrior.jpg);\"><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_slide\" style=\"background: url(https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/afrangle_12_passion.jpg);\"><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_slide\" style=\"background: url(https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/afrangle_11_zebra.jpg);\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am now more serious about art than I&#8217;ve ever been. As time has passed and new inspiration comes into focus, I find myself learning to dedicate more time to developing artistic skills. The African Angels and African Masks are a welcome departure from some of the more dark and serious subject matter I&#8217;ve done. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-african-angels-masks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}