{"id":141,"date":"2018-09-17T14:49:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T14:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/?p=141"},"modified":"2018-09-17T14:49:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T14:49:32","slug":"vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/141\/","title":{"rendered":"Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Irene Rice Pereira cared deeply about light, space, and vision. She was a poet and a philosopher as well as an artist. Influenced by the Bauhaus, the German art school active between 1919 and 1933 that sought to integrate art and life, Pereira experimented with a variety of less common materials and was an early adopter of acrylic\u2014sometimes called plastic\u2014paint. She defined her approach to abstraction as a search for \u201cplastic equivalents for the revolutionary discoveries in mathematics, physics, biochemistry and radioactivity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vision<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> combines the familiar media of oil and parchment with Masonite, a kind of malleable, mass-produced board first patented in 1924 and made out of compressing wood fibers. The translucent parchment plays with the eye\u2019s perception of depth. Painstakingly painted grey, white, and black ladder-like shapes sit on the surface of the work and hover over painted squares outlined in bright primary colors. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pereira\u2019s work was shown in ten different exhibitions between 1948 and 1957 at Barnett Aden<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Washington, D.C., gallery that Alma Thomas helped found. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irene Rice Pereira cared deeply about light, space, and vision. She was a poet and a philosopher as well as an artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1637,"featured_media":142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-demo","tag-abstract"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/305\/2018\/09\/1991_48.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1637"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}