{"id":217,"date":"2009-02-27T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2009\/02\/27\/art-blog-the-best-of-modern-art-1800-present\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:46:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:46:41","slug":"art-blog-the-best-of-modern-art-1800-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2009\/02\/27\/art-blog-the-best-of-modern-art-1800-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Blog: The Best of Modern Art, 1800-Present"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p> $\"\"$ <\/a>Nice surprise this morning. Noticed that my cover illustration for George Zebrowski\u2019s MACROLIFE<\/a> is one of today\u2019s featured works over at Art Blog: The Best of Modern Art, 1800-Present<\/a>. Check out this quote wherein the blog\u2019s creators describe what kind of art they like, and don\u2019t like:

\u201cMost of what has been outstanding art in the past hundred years has been disparaged by modern artists as \u2018mere illustration.\u2019 We find that term to be insulting, and more often than not, a snide attack from posers who cannot produce quality work. Let us be clear, we have no issue with pushing the boundaries of art, whether it be composition, medium, or otherwise. But for us at least, art must still fulfill its aesthetic role. In short, it must be beautiful, inspiring, sublime\u2026or at least something that doesn\u2019t look like vomit on canvas.\u201d<\/span>\n

Says it all, doesn\u2019t it? \ud83d\ude42 Today\u2019s entries also include works by Jacek Yerka, Arnold Bocklin, Carlos Schwabe, Ray Caesar, and Luis Royo. Art Blog\u2019s past archives make me want to spend all day there, with more than a few works I\u2019ve never seen, and will probably research later on my own. I\u2019ll definitely be visiting this place often.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nice surprise this morning. Noticed that my cover illustration for George Zebrowski\u2019s MACROLIFE is one of today\u2019s featured works over at Art Blog: The Best of Modern Art, 1800-Present. Check out this quote wherein the blog\u2019s creators describe what kind of art they like, and don\u2019t like:\u201cMost of what has been outstanding art in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conventions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/MACROLIFElowres.jpg?fit=432%2C648","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-3v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}