{"id":767,"date":"2024-01-03T13:55:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T13:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.argyll-bute.gov.uk\/argyllcollection\/?p=767"},"modified":"2024-03-13T16:23:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T16:23:31","slug":"blue-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.argyll-bute.gov.uk\/argyllcollection\/blue-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"767\" class=\"elementor elementor-767\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-770e891 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"770e891\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aa19321 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"aa19321\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Sam Black<\/p><p><strong>Catalogue:<\/strong> 138<\/p><p><strong>Material:<\/strong> Lithograph<\/p><p><strong>Dimensions:<\/strong> 50.8 x 66cm<\/p><p><strong>Date:<\/strong> Acquired 1981, Edition 31\/50<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-01c4478 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"01c4478\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>About the artwork<\/h2><p>In this print, the artist depicts five gulls sitting quietly in calm water, viewed from above. Through his use of textures and pattern and his skills as a lithographer, the artist has created a closely observed study.<\/p><h2>About the artist<\/h2><p>Sam Black (born Ardrossan, 1913-1997) studied at Glasgow School of Art and taught at Jordanhill College. He is know for his fraught depictions of war-torn landscapes in Europe during World War II. Black was a very strong proponent of accurate observation and recording, and of the importance of attention to detail. He instructed his students to spend three-quarters of an hour looking at their subject, before drawing for fifteen minutes.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Sam Black Catalogue: 138 Material: Lithograph Dimensions: 50.8 x 66cm Date: Acquired 1981, Edition 31\/50 About the artwork In this print, the artist depicts five gulls sitting quietly in calm water, viewed from above. Through his use of textures and pattern and his skills as a lithographer, the artist has created a closely observed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69],"tags":[218],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lithograph","category-sam-black","tag-sam-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argyll-bute.gov.uk\/argyllcollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argyll-bute.gov.uk\/argyllcollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argyll-bute.gov.uk\/argyllcollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argyll-bute.gov.uk\/argyllcollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argyll-bute.gov.uk\/argyllcollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.argyll-bute.gov.uk\/argyllcollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/www.argyll-bute.gov.uk\/argyllcollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argyll-bute.gov.uk\/argyllcollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argyll-bute.gov.uk\/argyllcollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argyll-bute.gov.uk\/argyllcollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argyll-bute.gov.uk\/argyllcollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}