{"id":3197,"date":"2021-09-15T19:21:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T19:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/?p=3197"},"modified":"2021-09-15T19:22:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T19:22:28","slug":"3197","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/?p=3197","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Protracted Silence&#8221; by Deborah Freedman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/581648617?app_id=122963&amp;h=1c28877845\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen title=\"Deborah_Protracted Silence\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My paintings are a response to the political and environmental disasters that have happened.<\/p>\n<p>This series depicts the disorder and chaos and turmoil in our sky and sea.<\/p>\n<p>The title comes from a poem by Wassily Kandinsky from his epic poem, \u201cConcerning the Spiritual in Art\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>protracted silence<\/em> is the calm in the storm, the eye in the storm. So even though I\u2019m depicting bedlam and chaos, every painting has a passage of calm or silence.<\/p>\n<p>This is my \u201cprotest art\u201d. I\u2019m not a scientist. I only know how to paint, so I\u2019m painting my distress about this disruption.<\/p>\n<p>Kandinsky said \u201ceach picture has a lifetime in prison, a lifetime of fear, doubt, hope and joy\u201d. He asked us \u201cwhat is the message?\u201d and his answer was \u201charmony\u201d. The artist\u2019s task is to harmonize. So, in a way, my mission has been to harmonize this bedlam with what I hope is composition, beauty, color, energy, and paint.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>View <em>This Land.<\/em> on <a href=\"https:\/\/susaneleyfineart.com\/Detail\/exhibitions\/176\">susaneleyfineart.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go to Deborah&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deborahfreedman.com\/paintings-2#\/protracted-silence\/\">website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow Deborah on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/debpaint\/\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My paintings are a response to the political and environmental disasters that have happened. This series depicts the disorder and chaos and turmoil in our sky and sea. The title comes from a poem by Wassily Kandinsky from his epic poem, \u201cConcerning the Spiritual in Art\u201d. The protracted silence is the calm in the storm, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3200,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions\/3200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}