{"id":9460,"date":"2024-09-09T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=9460"},"modified":"2024-09-13T17:31:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T17:31:24","slug":"spectacles-in-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/spectacles-in-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Spectacles in art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/novelty-glasses-tree-1351-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/novelty-glasses-tree-1351-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/novelty-glasses-tree-1351-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/novelty-glasses-tree-1351-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/novelty-glasses-tree-1351-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/novelty-glasses-tree-1351.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A novelty nose and glasses on a pencil drawing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cont\u00e9 Pierre Noire pencil, novelty spectacles, paper   42x30cm   2021-2024<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The pencil drawing was executed in December 2021 using a Cont\u00e9 Pierre Noire pencil. The novelty glasses and nose were added in September 2024 to create a montage or assemblage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was created in the typical way that works of this type are often created: the drawing was lying on a work surface and the glasses were lying nearby. I&#8217;d already placed the glasses on a few other pictures to suitable comic and\/or bizarre effect, so I thought I&#8217;d try them on this drawing for size. They fitted (at least as far as I&#8217;m concerned).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nose\/glasses combination are sometimes called disguise glasses or Groucho glasses (after Groucho Marx, whom I think used to wear them).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The process of coming up with new ideas as a result of inspiration generated by things around you applies to everything in life, not just art. By &#8216;things&#8217; I don&#8217;t just mean objects (such as novelty glasses) but ideas. When a person comes up with a new idea it&#8217;s very often a fusion of ideas that are already around and which the person picks up and combines in a new and interesting way. As a result,in any given culture, new concepts tend to be predetermined by the concepts that the culture already holds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A novelty nose and glasses on a pencil drawing Cont\u00e9 Pierre Noire pencil, novelty spectacles, paper 42x30cm 2021-2024 The pencil drawing was executed in December 2021 using a Cont\u00e9 Pierre Noire pencil. The novelty glasses and nose were added in September 2024 to create a montage or assemblage. It was created in the typical way [&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":[42,105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9460"}],"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=9460"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9465,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9460\/revisions\/9465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}