{"id":67,"date":"2018-09-12T16:43:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T16:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/?p=67"},"modified":"2018-11-13T15:40:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T15:40:12","slug":"mrs-lichtenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/67\/","title":{"rendered":"Mrs. Lichtenstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Mrs. Lichtenstein<\/em>, the mother of American Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein both shares space with, and turns away from, the viewer\u2019s reflection. The viewer\u2019s appearance in the mirror-painting is essential because for artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, it is the audience, not the artist, who completes the artwork. Every encounter is different.<\/p>\n<p>A key figure in the Italian art movement Arte Povera (literally \u201cpoor art,\u201d a reference to art made with everyday materials), Pistoletto is best known for works like Mrs. Lichtenstein. He called this body of works his \u201cmirror-paintings\u201d (quadri specchianti) and first exhibited them in 1961. Made by adhering a figure traced from a photograph and painted on tissue, the mirror-paintings combine photography, drawing, painting, and collage as well as industrially produced and highly polished stainless steel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Mrs. Lichtenstein, the mother of American Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein both shares space with, and turns away from, the viewer\u2019s reflection. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1637,"featured_media":28,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-demo","tag-portrait"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/305\/2018\/09\/1972_6_1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","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=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}