{"id":8765,"date":"2023-04-17T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=8765"},"modified":"2024-04-17T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T10:46:00","slug":"fur-in-contemporary-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/fur-in-contemporary-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Fur in contemporary art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fur-ellipse-wall-art-Tremenheere-P1004094-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Fur in contemporary art\" class=\"wp-image-8740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fur-ellipse-wall-art-Tremenheere-P1004094-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fur-ellipse-wall-art-Tremenheere-P1004094-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fur-ellipse-wall-art-Tremenheere-P1004094.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fur ellipse<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fake fur, card, acrylic.    30 x 42 x 8cm      March 2022<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>At first sight this work looks like a dark ellipse painted onto a blue background. Closer inspection reveals that the ellipse is in fact made of fur and that it protrudes some distance from the flat blue surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"571\" src=\"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fur-ellipse-wall-art-Tremenheere-detail-P1004094.jpg\" alt=\"fur in contemporary art\" class=\"wp-image-8739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fur-ellipse-wall-art-Tremenheere-detail-P1004094.jpg 900w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fur-ellipse-wall-art-Tremenheere-detail-P1004094-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fur-ellipse-wall-art-Tremenheere-detail-P1004094-768x487.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A close-up detail of the work.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The fur is dark and matt, making its texture quite hard to see without close inspection. As a result most casual observers don&#8217;t notice. A close inspection is however rewarded with the realisation of what is being looked at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This work exhibits my interest in interpreting perception, illusion and expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/painting-Tremenheere-exhibition-P1004083.jpg\" alt=\"Optically deceptive artworks\" class=\"wp-image-8751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/painting-Tremenheere-exhibition-P1004083.jpg 900w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/painting-Tremenheere-exhibition-P1004083-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/painting-Tremenheere-exhibition-P1004083-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Optically deceptive artworks in my solo show at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall, 2022. The fur piece is the far one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fur ellipse Fake fur, card, acrylic. 30 x 42 x 8cm March 2022 At first sight this work looks like a dark ellipse painted onto a blue background. Closer inspection reveals that the ellipse is in fact made of fur and that it protrudes some distance from the flat blue surface. The fur is dark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,16],"tags":[39,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765"}],"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=8765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8766,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765\/revisions\/8766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}