{"id":2039,"date":"2021-12-09T02:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2021-12-09T13:34:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T18:34:14","slug":"class-12-9-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/12\/09\/class-12-9-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Class 12\/9\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today in class, we discussed the idea of making art for art&#8217;s sake. Previously, art had been primarily used to convey morals, political ambitions, and the will of the patron in general. However, this soon began to change. Giambologna&#8217;s masterwork, Rape of the Sabine Woman, was an excellent example of this shift. His work was primarily created to demonstrate his virtuosity in depicting human forms, rather than to convey a moral. Speaking to this is the  fact that the work was named after it was completed. This demonstrates his primary goal: demonstration of talent. This tradition is continued even today, through artists such as Jackson Pollack and his splatter paint works. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in class, we discussed the idea of making art for art&#8217;s sake. Previously, art had been primarily used to convey morals, political ambitions, and the will of the patron in general. However, this soon began to change. Giambologna&#8217;s masterwork, Rape of the Sabine Woman, was an excellent example of this shift. His work was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11214,"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\/2039"}],"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\/11214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2040,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions\/2040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}