{"id":363,"date":"2016-02-01T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/01\/hirshhorn-museum-sculpture-garden\/"},"modified":"2016-02-01T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T20:19:00","slug":"hirshhorn-museum-sculpture-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/01\/hirshhorn-museum-sculpture-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a view of the Smithsonian from the Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden. The sculpture in the foreground is Horse and Rider by Marino Marini. I set out to make it resemble my recent drawing of New York Harbor in these respects: a wild\/natural looking foreground, vertical objects leading the eye to a focal point, and some object as the focal point\/object in distance that was recognizably &#8220;DC.&#8221; I also wanted to include a lamppost. However, lampposts placed in just such a configuration were not to be found. I actually intended to make a composition with the Washington monument. But, then the vertical lines of the horse and the vertical lines of the Smithsonian Towers and flagpole presented themselves. And, so, I put the wild\/natural part in the middle ground and added some linear perspective, and voila.<br \/>There is no sculpture sketch today before I spent too much time on this drawing.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-cftIrgU6QFI\/Vq-9uCzp_fI\/AAAAAAAAHIU\/SuX886qPMEc\/s288\/iphone_photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-cftIrgU6QFI\/Vq-9uCzp_fI\/AAAAAAAAHIU\/SuX886qPMEc\/s288\/iphone_photo.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"582\" style=\"margin:5px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a view of the Smithsonian from the Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden. The sculpture in the foreground is Horse and Rider by Marino Marini. I set out to make it resemble my recent drawing of New York Harbor in these respects: a wild\/natural looking foreground, vertical objects leading the eye to a focal point, and some object as the&hellip; <span class=\"read-more-span\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/01\/hirshhorn-museum-sculpture-garden\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}