{"id":2603,"date":"2024-04-29T16:35:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T16:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2024-04-29T16:35:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T16:35:57","slug":"april-24th-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/04\/29\/april-24th-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"April 24th Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In continuing post-impressionism, we learned about the life of Gauguin. He was a wealthy and successful collector of art. In the middle of his life, he left his career and family to pursue art. This path led him to pursue simplicity away from civilization. This was reflected in his art where he strayed away from the teachings of art schools. His work <em>The Vision after the Sermon <\/em>depicted women and a priest having a vision of Jacob wrestling with an angel. It was made flat by the thick outlines. It also represents synthetism in which the work comes from emotion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, we learned about Fauvism and Expressionism. <em>Le Bonjeur de Vive<\/em> was a good example. The changes in the way color is used is most indicative of this time period. In this work the colors are arbitrary yet impactful. They cover the entire work where even empty space is covered and expressive. The colors convey the feeling of happiness. This style can also invoke negative emotions like uncomfortability like in <em>Street, Dresden<\/em>. This work utilizes a similar color pallet but does so with an imbalance and uncomfortable style. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In continuing post-impressionism, we learned about the life of Gauguin. He was a wealthy and successful collector of art. In the middle of his life, he left his career and family to pursue art. This path led him to pursue simplicity away from civilization. This was reflected in his art where he strayed away from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17821,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17821"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2606,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions\/2606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}