{"id":272,"date":"2000-12-05T20:41:38","date_gmt":"2000-12-06T01:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sirianniart.com\/wp\/?p=272"},"modified":"2019-03-07T13:20:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T18:20:22","slug":"intro-to-african-mask-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/2000\/12\/intro-to-african-mask-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Intro to African Mask Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-273\" title=\"mask\" src=\"http:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mask.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mask.jpg 195w, https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mask-89x150.jpg 89w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/>The 1999-2000 Mask Series of oil\u00a0paintings\u00a0is based on a mask made by my son, Gabe.<\/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 id=\"attachment_274\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-274\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-274\" title=\"maskdance_09\" src=\"http:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/maskdance_09-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/maskdance_09-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/maskdance_09-150x78.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/maskdance_09.jpg 603w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mask 9: The Ceremony &#8211; Oil (4&#8217;x 7&#8242;), 2000<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1999-2000 Mask Series of oil\u00a0paintings\u00a0is based on a mask made by my son, Gabe. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":273,"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-272","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\/272","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=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1266,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/1266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}