{"id":4631,"date":"2011-06-14T07:27:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T12:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=4631"},"modified":"2011-06-14T07:27:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T12:27:06","slug":"art-damn-it-art-watch-23-in-a-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=4631","title":{"rendered":"Art, damn it, art! watch. (#23 in a series)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Wilson is an artist in England.<\/p>\n<p>His medium is acrylic enamel&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/14\/world\/europe\/14muswell.html?_r=1\">and used chewing gum stuck to the sidewalk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/14\/world\/europe\/14muswell.html?_r=1\">He developed a technique in which he softens the gum with a blowtorch, sprays it with lacquer and then applies three coats of acrylic enamel. He uses tiny brushes, quick-drying his work with a lighter as he goes along, and then seals it with clear lacquer. Each painting takes between a few hours and a few days, and can last several years if the conditions are right.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not mocking Mr. Wilson: the few examples of his work shown with the article are rather pleasing to me, particularly <a href=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2011\/06\/14\/world\/europe\/JP-MUSWELL3\/JP-MUSWELL3-popup.jpg\">the Millennium Bridge one<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Wilson is an artist in England. His medium is acrylic enamel&#8230;and used chewing gum stuck to the sidewalk. He developed a technique in which he softens the gum with a blowtorch, sprays it with lacquer and then applies three coats of acrylic enamel. He uses tiny brushes, quick-drying his work with a lighter as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-clippings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4632,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions\/4632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}