{"id":1083,"date":"2016-03-15T06:50:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T13:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2016-03-15T06:51:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T13:51:17","slug":"stalin-to-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/15\/stalin-to-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Stalin to Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TFCXT-3b4jk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stalin\/Putin, Smith\/Mugabe, Somoza\/Ortega, Hirohito\/Kim Il-sung, Idris\/Gaddafi, Batista\/Castro, GOP\/Dems are ongoing portrait pairings of autocratic leaders that reflect a corruption of power.  These illustrations have been created with the intention of animating a transformation from one face to the other as video loops.  \u201cStalin to Putin\u201d is the second animation of the series.  \u201cSomoza to Ortega\u201d was completed quickly following the Sandinista\u2019s last constitutional amendment that got rid of term limits, facilitating Ortega\u2019s permanency as Nicaraguan president.  I created the illustrations and my assistant Thomas Medina is the animator behind &#8220;Stalin to Putin&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stalin\/Putin, Smith\/Mugabe, Somoza\/Ortega, Hirohito\/Kim Il-sung, Idris\/Gaddafi, Batista\/Castro, GOP\/Dems are ongoing portrait pairings of autocratic leaders that reflect a corruption of power. These illustrations have been created with the intention of animating a transformation from one face to the other as video loops. \u201cStalin to Putin\u201d is the second animation of the series. \u201cSomoza to Ortega\u201d [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,58,753,2,749,3,757,652],"tags":[229,771,835,843,693,692,723,436],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-art-and-activism","category-contemporary-art","category-critical_perspectives","category-fine-art","category-fine_arts","category-illustration","category-video-art-2","tag-2d-animation","tag-animation","tag-dictator-series","tag-dictators","tag-putin","tag-stalin","tag-vector-animation","tag-video-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}