{"id":28861,"date":"2017-06-12T03:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=28861"},"modified":"2017-06-07T07:10:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T14:10:37","slug":"wanda-bernardino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/12\/wanda-bernardino\/","title":{"rendered":"wanda bernardino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=28868\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28868\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28868\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/wanda-bernardino.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"2166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/wanda-bernardino.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/wanda-bernardino-81x300.jpg 81w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/wanda-bernardino-276x1024.jpg 276w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These are\u00a0the mysterious oil paintings\u00a0of Portugal born, London based artist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bo-lee.co.uk\/wanda-bernardino\">Wanda Bernardino<\/a>. I could write a story about every faceless\u00a0pair up there. Why no faces you ask? Here you go&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Bernardino\u2019s enigmatic portraits deliberately copy, rework and recreate individuals from historic paintings. In seeking an elusive connection with the past she uncovers the processes behind the original and transcribes marks across time. She blanks out the subject\u2019s faces after having painted them to force the observer to re-examine the attribute of identity we ascribe to portraiture. One might see such an act as vandalism but it explores aesthetic, social, political and moral attitudes we hold toward both art and representations of history.\u00a0{via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bo-lee.co.uk\/\">bo-lee gallery<\/a>, London}<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Happy Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are\u00a0the mysterious oil paintings\u00a0of Portugal born, London based artist\u00a0Wanda Bernardino. I could write a story about every faceless\u00a0pair up there. Why no faces you ask? Here you go&#8230; Bernardino\u2019s enigmatic portraits deliberately copy, rework and recreate individuals from historic paintings. In seeking an elusive connection with the past she uncovers the processes behind the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28869,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28861\/revisions\/28869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}