{"id":1453,"date":"2017-07-10T08:37:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2017-07-09T12:57:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T19:57:55","slug":"cosmic-art-history-101-by-ash-krafton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1453","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Art History 101 by Ash Krafton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1456\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/640px-F\u00c3\u00a9lix_Vallotton_1913_-_Sunset-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Who painted the sky<br \/>\nwith brushes of fire? In streaks<br \/>\nof cometious flame?<br \/>\nThat artist moved<br \/>\non to another canvas<br \/>\nlong before his creation<br \/>\ncould be witnessed, seen, admired<\/p>\n<p>Everything we see above<br \/>\nbelongs to dusty past<br \/>\nThose splots of light scattered<br \/>\nlike Pollock&#8217;s drips\u00e2\u20ac\u201dchaos<br \/>\nor order? Only aficionados<br \/>\nand art critics will debate<\/p>\n<p>while a student sees points<br \/>\nof light and imagines the lines<br \/>\nbetween, makes connections,<br \/>\ndraws shapes, scrys symbols<br \/>\nDivining the dimensions of destiny<\/p>\n<p>Only a student possesses<br \/>\nsuch confidence in the face<br \/>\nof monumental impossibility. And only<br \/>\na master realizes the futility<\/p>\n<p>of over-simplifying the stars<br \/>\nknowing each one isn&#8217;t a drip\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nit&#8217;s a galaxy, crammed with worlds<\/p>\n<p>where destiny is dwarfed by possibilities<br \/>\ntoo numerous to imagine<\/p>\n<p>and pauses to admire the artist, instead<\/p>\n<h6>Sunset By F\u00c3\u00a9lix Vallotton, 1913 &#8211; http:\/\/impressionistsgallery.co.uk\/artists\/Artists\/tuv\/Vallotton\/19-25.html, Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=55156972<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who painted the sky with brushes of fire? In streaks of cometious flame? That artist moved on to another canvas long before his creation could be witnessed, seen, admired Everything we see above belongs to dusty past Those splots of light scattered like Pollock&#8217;s drips\u00e2\u20ac\u201dchaos or order? Only aficionados and art critics will debate while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1455,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions\/1455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}