{"id":2856,"date":"2015-09-18T19:21:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T23:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2015\/09\/object-of-art\/"},"modified":"2015-09-18T19:21:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T23:21:23","slug":"object-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2015\/09\/object-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Object of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This letter from Sherwood Anderson to his son could be said about any artistic endeavor:<\/p>\n<p><em>Learn to draw. Try to make your hand so unconsciously adept that it will put down what you feel without your having to think of your hands.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Then you can think of the thing before you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Draw things that have some meaning to you. An apple, what does it mean? The object drawn doesn\u2019t matter so much.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s what you feel about it, what it means to you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sherwood Anderson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2013\/01\/09\/sherwood-anderson-letter-to-son\/\" target=\"_self\">thanks, BP<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b01b8d15a30e4970c-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"4000\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b01b8d15a30e4970c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b01b8d15a30e4970c-500wi.jpg\" title=\"4000\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This letter from Sherwood Anderson to his son could be said about any artistic endeavor: Learn to draw. Try to make your hand so unconsciously adept that it will put down what you feel without your having to think of your hands. Then you can think of the thing before you. Draw things that have [&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-2856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856","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=2856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}