{"id":14382,"date":"2018-02-22T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T22:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14382"},"modified":"2018-02-22T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T22:24:09","slug":"artist-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/02\/22\/artist-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hossam Dirar of Egypt is considered to be a significant artist, and I thought it interesting that his latest project seems to be, well, going back in time:<\/p>\n

\u201cI took European Orientalist artists\u2019 paintings, which I duplicated as black and white photos, and then I painted over them using acrylic paints and inks,\u201d Dirar told Al-Monitor. \u201cI used collage techniques on some of the works.\u201d [AL Monitor<\/a><\/strong>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On his website he has a page<\/a> dedicated to Le Cairo 1801<\/em>. Here’s a sample.<\/p>\n

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A desire to take ownership over the images of the French? Yearning for the Cairo of yestercentury? Just having fun? Check out his other work at the link above. For an overview, see the AL Monitor<\/strong><\/em> article, also above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hossam Dirar of Egypt is considered to be a significant artist, and I thought it interesting that his latest project seems to be, well, going back in time: \u201cI took European Orientalist artists\u2019 paintings, which I duplicated as black and white photos, and then I painted over them using acrylic \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14386,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14382\/revisions\/14386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}