{"id":7629,"date":"2024-02-15T16:55:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T16:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=7629"},"modified":"2024-03-13T08:16:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T08:16:59","slug":"mirror-art-squaring-the-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/mirror-art-squaring-the-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirror art \u2013 Squaring the Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/contemporary-art-images\/contemporary-mirror-art-3.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary mirror art reflections\" title=\"contemporary mirror art reflections\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mirror art. Squaring the Circle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mirror, card, paper, acrylic.  28x28x18cm   Feb 2024<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A mirror piece consisting of a semicircle of card half of which passes inside a box-like construction. The semicircle and box are resting on a mirror so that the semicircle appears to be part of a full circle that enters and exits the box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/contemporary-art-images\/contemporary-mirror-art-2.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary art mirror sculpture reflections\" title=\"contemporary mirror art reflections\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The reflection of the box makes the box appear to be half of a square structure, with the circle entering and leaving the interior of the square via its openings where the square is cut. This gives rise to the title of the piece, <i>Squaring the Circle.<\/i> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/contemporary-art-images\/contemporary-mirror-art-1.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary art mirror sculpture reflections\" title=\"contemporary mirror art reflections\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The mirror is a front-coated (or first-coated) mirror. Unlike standard mirrors that have their reflective coating on the rear surface of the glass front-coated mirrors have the reflective surface on the front.  With a standard mirror the thickness of the glass creates a gap or space between the object on the glass and the reflection, while with a front-coated mirror the object and the reflection are &#8216;touching&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mirror art. Squaring the Circle Mirror, card, paper, acrylic. 28x28x18cm Feb 2024 A mirror piece consisting of a semicircle of card half of which passes inside a box-like construction. The semicircle and box are resting on a mirror so that the semicircle appears to be part of a full circle that enters and exits the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,16],"tags":[39,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629"}],"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=7629"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8115,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions\/8115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}