{"id":368,"date":"2011-08-18T13:29:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T03:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2011-08-18T13:29:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T03:29:24","slug":"i-want-to-paint-like-kandinsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"I want to paint like Kandinsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Colour is the key. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.&#8221; Wassily Kandinsky (1866\u20131944)<br \/>\na quote from the artist credited as having created the first abstract watercolour.<br \/>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-368 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/?attachment_id=369'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_0735-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/?attachment_id=370'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_0738-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you just get to teach a young artist that shows great promise and yesterday was one of those days, I knew he was different when he said to me, <em>&#8216;I want to paint like Kandinsky&#8217;<\/em> &#8211; not something that you hear everyday and especially not from a 7 year old.<br \/>\nI love this young man&#8217;s work, it is amazing especially when you think that he is of such a young age.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kandinskypaintings.net\/\" title=\"A short Art History lesson on Kandinsky\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Colour is the key. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.&#8221; Wassily Kandinsky (1866\u20131944) a quote from the artist credited as having created the first abstract watercolour. Sometimes you just get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,15,26,17,12],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","tag-art","tag-art-classes","tag-artist-2","tag-family-fun-art-class","tag-laguna-phuket"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}