{"id":7587,"date":"2023-12-18T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=7587"},"modified":"2024-03-13T08:29:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T08:29:57","slug":"art-from-everyday-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/art-from-everyday-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"Art from everyday objects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/contemporary-art-images\/contemporary-art-everyday-objects-2714.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary art from everyday objects\" title=\"contemporary art from kitchen utensils\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prestige<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prestige steel baking tray on front of glazed picture frame      46x60cm    2008<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A work created from a mundane everyday object \u2013 a kitchen baking tray \u2013 mounted on the exterior of a glazed picture frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the motivations behind the work was to show the beauty and rich visual interest intrinsic in mundane objects from mundane environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is a detail of the intricate patterns and patina on the steel surface of the baking tray. The word &#8216;Prestige&#8217; it the centre is an important feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/contemporary-art-images\/contemporary-art-everyday-objects-detail-2714.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary art from everyday objects\" title=\"contemporary art from kitchen utensils\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been interested in the concept of finding beauty in the mundane ever since I admired the colours in the film of detergent on a wire mess kitchen utensil (maybe a cake stand) as it caught the sun. That was in my parents&#8217; kitchen about sixty years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prestige Prestige steel baking tray on front of glazed picture frame 46x60cm 2008 A work created from a mundane everyday object \u2013 a kitchen baking tray \u2013 mounted on the exterior of a glazed picture frame. One of the motivations behind the work was to show the beauty and rich visual interest intrinsic in mundane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587"}],"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=7587"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8124,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587\/revisions\/8124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}