{"id":57,"date":"2006-08-08T17:02:11","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=57"},"modified":"2006-08-08T17:02:11","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T16:02:11","slug":"modigliani-and-his-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Modigliani and his models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both the Ofcom Consumer Panel and the Postwatch Council &#8211; the statutory consumer bodies on which I sit &#8211; do not have meetings in August, so this is going to be quite a quiet month for me. Today therefore I was able to visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalacademy.org.uk\/\">Royal Academy<\/a> in central London to see the exhibition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalacademy.org.uk\/?lid=1605\">&#8220;Modigliani And His Models&#8221;<\/a>.<br \/>\nOverwhemingly <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amedeo_Modigliani\">Amedeo Modigliani<\/a> (1884-1920) painted portraits and most of them were of women. Although he is most famous for his nudes &#8211; and several of those are on display &#8211; most were of various clothed muses, notably Beatrice Hastings, Hanka Zborowska, Lunia Czechowska and Jeanne H&#038;#233buterne. His style is very notable: elongated faces, necks and bodies and blank eyes like masks. It represents a strange, serene beauty.<br \/>\nIn the courtyard of the Royal Acedemy is a giant sculpture by Damien Hurst: the stunning work called &#8220;The Virgin Mother&#8221;.<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Hurst.jpg\" width=225 height=300 border=3><br \/><font size=\"-2\">&#8220;The Virgin Mother&#8221; by Damien Hurst<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both the Ofcom Consumer Panel and the Postwatch Council &#8211; the statutory consumer bodies on which I sit &#8211; do not have meetings in August, so this is going to be quite a quiet month for me. Today therefore I was able to visit the Royal Academy in central London to see the exhibition &#8220;Modigliani [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}