{"id":409,"date":"2015-09-29T18:56:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T22:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/?p=409"},"modified":"2015-09-29T18:56:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T22:56:15","slug":"art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/09\/29\/art\/","title":{"rendered":"Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many different things come together to form a piece of art. The definition of art has changed throughout the years. Throughout time, people have questioned what makes art; is art just an imitation of nature or does it demonstrate internal emotions as well? Plato, in his work\u00a0<em>The Republic,\u00a0<\/em>supported the argument that art is copying the outer world. Aristotle, on the other hand, believed that art represented an object&#8217;s potential and that art should allow for\u00a0an easier, more free approach to reality. I personally believe that art is a combination of the external world and one&#8217;s internal world or their perceptions of what occurs around them. My reasoning for this is because I believe that everybody&#8217;s perception of the world is relative and influenced by one&#8217;s experiences. Also I find it very interesting\u00a0that art, while it can depict the truth, can also illustrate lies. By using various shapes and color combinations, one can create a illusion. These little pieces of art can be very significant. A single detail or color choice can highly influence one&#8217;s interpretation of a piece of art. For example, in the art piece <i>Birth of the Virgin Mary<\/i>, the painting has pictorial depth. This juxtaposes religion and science. These two things are very contrasting and yield to various interpretations. Art can mean something unique to whomever experiences it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many different things come together to form a piece of art. The definition of art has changed throughout the years. Throughout time, people have questioned what makes art; is art just an imitation of nature or does it demonstrate internal&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/09\/29\/art\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[248679],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}