{"id":1292,"date":"2021-10-07T14:28:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T14:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2021-10-07T14:28:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T14:28:34","slug":"10-5-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/10\/07\/10-5-3\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Simply put, today was a graphic class. We examined photos and an artistic portrayal of ergotism. Side effects of ergotism include feet and limbs turning black while becoming exceedingly painful with death following. Such a grim situation was paid homage in an altarpiece from modern day France. The subject was St Sebastian who is an icon for suffering after he was brutally tortured by the Romans for converting to Christianity. I really enjoyed this altarpiece because it reminded me of the importance of historical context and how we can connect to the past over shared experiences. Specifically, with all this disease and plague talk, I was reminded of the Covid-19 pandemic. I wonder in my exhibition if I can effectively make a connection between present times and past to heighten the viewer&#8217;s engagement with the art.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simply put, today was a graphic class. We examined photos and an artistic portrayal of ergotism. Side effects of ergotism include feet and limbs turning black while becoming exceedingly painful with death following. Such a grim situation was paid homage in an altarpiece from modern day France. The subject was St Sebastian who is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}