{"id":78,"date":"2020-10-07T09:26:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T13:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/?p=78"},"modified":"2020-11-06T13:36:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T18:36:04","slug":"claudia-zimmerman-91-a-song-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/claudia-zimmerman-91-a-song-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudia Zimmerman \u201991"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-79\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/610\/2020\/10\/claudia-zimmerman-1021x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Oil Painting of a young Black person with a bird in a tree behind\" width=\"685\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/610\/2020\/10\/claudia-zimmerman-1021x1024.jpeg 1021w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/610\/2020\/10\/claudia-zimmerman-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/610\/2020\/10\/claudia-zimmerman-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/610\/2020\/10\/claudia-zimmerman-768x770.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/610\/2020\/10\/claudia-zimmerman-685x687.jpeg 685w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/610\/2020\/10\/claudia-zimmerman-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/610\/2020\/10\/claudia-zimmerman.jpeg 1542w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Song of Silence,\u201d 2019. Oil on canvas, 12 x 12 inches.<br \/>\n<strong>Artist Statement<\/strong>: Bearing in mind that silence is its own form of protest, the theme of this piece is its own form of protest.\u00a0Within my memory is my daughter&#8217;s childhood friend.\u00a0 Adding to that is another layer derived from various portraits I have encountered both historical and contemporary.\u00a0As a painting, &#8216;Song \u00a0of Silence&#8217; stands on its own merit.\u00a0I ask only that the viewer of this work search for his or her own times of silence and its possible relevance to the issue at hand.\u00a0In painting allegory, I find the metaphor, and the act of simultaneously hiding and presenting narrative, very appealing.\u00a0The veiled message created to make a point more powerful and the freedom to transcend the logical is the matrix of my work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn painting allegory, I find the metaphor, and the act of simultaneously hiding and presenting narrative, very appealing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1545,"featured_media":241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paintings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/610\/2020\/10\/claudia-zimmerman-song-of-silence-featured-450x250.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/cromwell-day-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}