{"id":76,"date":"2008-03-11T11:35:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T18:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/11\/early-abstraction-by-harry-everett-smith\/"},"modified":"2008-03-11T11:46:35","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T18:46:35","slug":"early-abstraction-by-harry-everett-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/11\/early-abstraction-by-harry-everett-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Abstraction by Harry Everett Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following my opening at Vox Populi on Friday, one person commented that sequences of my animation reminded her of the animations of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_Everett_Smith\" title=\"Wikipedia on Harry Smith\">Harry Smith<\/a>.  Not being familiar with Harry Smith, I searched for his work and discovered the animation above on YouTube, where several others are available.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlthough technically I appreciate Smith&#8217;s strictly geometric abstractions, I&#8217;m much more drawn to this particular animation that presents figurative characters set against the geometric lights and shapes.  It seems that his interest in anthropology presented Smith with a wide array of characters to draw from such as Buddhist deities.  Considering the animation tools of the period, Smith&#8217;s films are inspiring in so far as the work of one man who was also a folk music archavist, sound artist and mystic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following my opening at Vox Populi on Friday, one person commented that sequences of my animation reminded her of the animations of Harry Smith. Not being familiar with Harry Smith, I searched for his work and discovered the animation above on YouTube, where several others are available. Although technically I appreciate Smith&#8217;s strictly geometric abstractions, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[7,3],"tags":[25,26],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art_technology","category-fine_arts","tag-animator","tag-mystic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}