{"id":2667,"date":"2021-07-25T18:03:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T22:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2021\/07\/being-pretty\/"},"modified":"2021-07-25T18:03:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T22:03:40","slug":"being-pretty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2021\/07\/being-pretty\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Pretty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of these posts concern the way in which we apprehend and appreciate art: emotionally \u2013 where the pre-cognitive response to the work is the measure of it&#39;s success vs. intellectually \u2013 where one must provide a context and establish a basis for it&#39;s inclusion in the pantheon of &quot;art.&quot;&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>We favor the former and came across an essay about painter Georgia O&#39;Keefe, whose work we&#39;ve long been a fan of, which included this observation of hers:<\/p>\n<p><em> I\u2019m one of the few artists, maybe the only one today, who is willing to talk about my work as pretty,\u201d she once said. \u201cI don\u2019t mind it being pretty.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/article\/artsy-editorial-artist-georgia-okeeffe?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_campaign=editorial&amp;fbclid=IwAR37gOdupz2bhh1FAfHNFss4sOIqduKWjKCEg8k4jK3GInCwS90LtJaceTk\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0278803ad697200d-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"O&#39;keefe Painting\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b0278803ad697200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0278803ad697200d-500wi.jpg\" title=\"O&#39;keefe Painting\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of these posts concern the way in which we apprehend and appreciate art: emotionally \u2013 where the pre-cognitive response to the work is the measure of it&#39;s success vs. intellectually \u2013 where one must provide a context and establish a basis for it&#39;s inclusion in the pantheon of &quot;art.&quot;&#0160; We favor the former and [&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-2667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667","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=2667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}