{"id":2666,"date":"2021-08-17T09:31:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T13:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2021\/08\/matter-of-enjoyment\/"},"modified":"2021-08-17T09:31:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T13:31:19","slug":"matter-of-enjoyment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2021\/08\/matter-of-enjoyment\/","title":{"rendered":"Matter of Enjoyment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow-up to the previous post about Georgia O\u2019Keefe\u2019s work being dismissed for being \u201cpretty\u201d, here is author Willa Cather, whose sentiments regarding art were remarkably similar \u2026 namely that the feeling evoked by a creative endeavor \u2013&#0160;painting, poetry\u2026etc \u2013 is more relevant than any intellectual explanation of why it satisfies the definition of \u201cart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Art is a matter of enjoyment through the five senses. Unless you can see the beauty all around you everywhere, and enjoy it, you can never comprehend art.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/?s=willa+cather\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b026bdee93c17200c-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Outcrop\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b026bdee93c17200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b026bdee93c17200c-500wi.jpg\" title=\"Outcrop\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow-up to the previous post about Georgia O\u2019Keefe\u2019s work being dismissed for being \u201cpretty\u201d, here is author Willa Cather, whose sentiments regarding art were remarkably similar \u2026 namely that the feeling evoked by a creative endeavor \u2013&#0160;painting, poetry\u2026etc \u2013 is more relevant than any intellectual explanation of why it satisfies the definition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}