{"id":1108,"date":"2011-08-19T19:28:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T01:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2011-08-19T19:33:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T01:33:52","slug":"face-off-picasso-vs-epiktetos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1108","title":{"rendered":"face off: Picasso vs. Epiktetos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/08\/face-off_picasso-vs-epiktetos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1110\" title=\"face off_picasso vs epiktetos\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/08\/face-off_picasso-vs-epiktetos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/face-off_picasso-vs-epiktetos.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/face-off_picasso-vs-epiktetos-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/08\/face-off.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day two hundred and thirty-one:<\/strong> If Picasso has a &#8220;blue period&#8221; and a &#8220;rose period&#8221; then I must be in a &#8220;Picasso period.&#8221; I guess this is the result of looking at nothing but Picasso prints all day. I noticed the figure on the left in an etching by Picasso titled <em>La Danse (The Dance)<\/em>, and I was struck by the strong nod to classical style. I couldn&#8217;t help but recall the similar use of line by Athenian vase painters 2500 years earlier, and decided to explore a visual comparison by sketching the ancient and the modern side by side. The Greek fellow on the right is based on a red-figure plate painted by Epiktetos, now at the Met in New York. One thing I learned today is the value of the line, and how the slightest waver can have a powerful aesthetic effect &#8212; for better or worse. Thanks to the &#8220;edit undo&#8221; function in Corel Painter, I had plenty of chances to practice my skills!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day two hundred and thirty-one: If Picasso has a &#8220;blue period&#8221; and a &#8220;rose period&#8221; then I must be in a &#8220;Picasso period.&#8221; I guess this is the result of looking at nothing but Picasso prints all day. I noticed the figure on the left in an etching by Picasso titled La Danse (The Dance), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[15,12,26,37,32,79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}