{"id":4994,"date":"2022-08-21T07:58:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T07:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=4994"},"modified":"2024-03-13T09:04:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T09:04:31","slug":"spider-heads-pencil-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/spider-heads-pencil-sketch\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider heads \u2013 pencil sketch from the imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/spider-heads-contemporary-art-sketch.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary art spiders - pencil sketch from the imagination\" title=\"contemporary art spider pencil sketch from the imagination\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Spider heads.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pencil on paper.     20.6.2022.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I frequently draw imaginary heads in unusual situations. On two of these &#8216;spider heads&#8217; I&#8217;ve turned the hair on the heads into long spider legs, with the heads forming the anatomically incorrect spiders&#8217; bodies.<br>I think the spider legs in these sketches probably owe something to the spiders of Louise Bourgeois. The spiders may also be influenced by the work of Symbolist artist <span id=\"impressionist-1\">Odilon Redon, whose <\/span><span id=\"impressionist-1\">The Crying Spider has definnite similarities, although I don&#8217;t remember having seeing it before I drew my sketch. I did read a book about Symbolism back in the 1970s, Dreamers of Decadence by Philippe Jullian, so maybe it was in that (When I say I read the book, I mean that I looked at the pictures).<\/span><br>Like many of my imaginary sketches these were drawn over a cup of coffee in a cafe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spider heads. Pencil on paper. 20.6.2022. I frequently draw imaginary heads in unusual situations. On two of these &#8216;spider heads&#8217; I&#8217;ve turned the hair on the heads into long spider legs, with the heads forming the anatomically incorrect spiders&#8217; bodies.I think the spider legs in these sketches probably owe something to the spiders of Louise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[92,105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4994"}],"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=4994"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8176,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4994\/revisions\/8176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}