{"id":1666,"date":"2011-12-21T20:20:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T02:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2011-12-21T20:20:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T02:20:55","slug":"sketch-after-a-photo-of-andre-breton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1666","title":{"rendered":"sketch after a photo of Andr\u00e9 Breton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/12\/andre-breton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1667\" title=\"andre breton\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/12\/andre-breton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/andre-breton.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/andre-breton-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/andre-breton-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day three hundred and fifty-five: <\/strong>For those who have studied Surrealist photography, this image may be familiar. It&#8217;s a photograph made around 1930 by Man Ray of the movement&#8217;s leader Andr\u00e9 Breton. I&#8217;ve known about it for several years now, and have always found it strange and delightful. When I started sketching it this evening, I began rather haphazardly and without attention to Breton&#8217;s true features. So the eyes and the goggles are skewed, and the face is entirely too narrow. But as I continued to layer and blend tones of gray, to more closely imitate the black and white photo, I became enthralled with the process. In the end, my lack of accuracy seems to fit the silliness of the subject, and I&#8217;m as enchanted by my sketch as I am by the original.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day three hundred and fifty-five: For those who have studied Surrealist photography, this image may be familiar. It&#8217;s a photograph made around 1930 by Man Ray of the movement&#8217;s leader Andr\u00e9 Breton. I&#8217;ve known about it for several years now, and have always found it strange and delightful. When I started sketching it this evening, [&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":[18,12,26,32,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666"}],"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=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}