{"id":3792,"date":"2018-07-07T08:38:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T08:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=3792"},"modified":"2024-03-13T10:12:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T10:12:55","slug":"square-and-circles-gouache-and-watercolour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/square-and-circles-gouache-and-watercolour\/","title":{"rendered":"Square and circles : gouache and watercolour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/black-square-red-circles-abstract-contemporary-watercolour-6041.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary watercolour and gouache abstract art - black square with red circles\" title=\"contemporary watercolour and gouache abstract art - black square with red circles\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Composition in black, red and white<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gouache and watercolour, watercolour paper.     24 x 21cm.     July 2018<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a composition from a series that explores the dynamics of stability and instability.<br>The black square in the image suggests stability, while the red circles, with their lack of roundedness and their off-kilted positioning, suggest instability. The smoke effect adds to the sense of disequilibrium, as does the white &#8220;ghost&#8221; circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The painting has no specific right way up, which all helps with the feeling of precariousness that the work generates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composition in black, red and white Gouache and watercolour, watercolour paper. 24 x 21cm. July 2018 This is a composition from a series that explores the dynamics of stability and instability.The black square in the image suggests stability, while the red circles, with their lack of roundedness and their off-kilted positioning, suggest instability. The smoke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[45,105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3792"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8247,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions\/8247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}