{"id":4330,"date":"2018-10-15T10:05:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T10:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=4330"},"modified":"2024-03-13T09:32:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T09:32:03","slug":"a-leaf-changes-colour-in-autumn-painted-maple-leaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/a-leaf-changes-colour-in-autumn-painted-maple-leaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental art \u2013 a leaf changes colour in autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/contemporary-environmental-art-painted-maple-leaf-6532.jpg\" alt=\"Contemporary art in the environment- a painted leaf\" title=\"A maple leaf painted blue with red polka dots\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Leaf Changes Colour in Autumn<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leaf, acrylic paint.     September 2018<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A maple leaf painted blue with red polka dots.<br>The leaf had fallen from the tree in autumn.<br>The inspiration for this work came partly from the fact that the leaves on the trees were changing colour in the autumn, prompting me to think of changing their colours in other ways.<br>In previous years I&#8217;ve painted acorns and suchlike in unusual colours.<br>Like a lot of my work, this work involved interacting with and responding to the natural environment.<br>Unlike a lot of environmental art, my own environmenntal art often involves interventions of a deliberately unnatural nature, such as here where I&#8217;ve painted a perfectly nice autumn leaf in unnatural paint (acrylic) and in a design generated from human esthetics. This is partly to convey the way that we impose our tastes and our values on the natural world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/contemporary-environmental-art-maple-leaf-detail.jpg\" alt=\"Contemporary art and the environment - a painted maple leaf\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A detail of the painted leaf.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Leaf Changes Colour in Autumn Leaf, acrylic paint. September 2018 A maple leaf painted blue with red polka dots.The leaf had fallen from the tree in autumn.The inspiration for this work came partly from the fact that the leaves on the trees were changing colour in the autumn, prompting me to think of changing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41,12,16],"tags":[29,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330"}],"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=4330"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8221,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330\/revisions\/8221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}