{"id":29259,"date":"2017-08-04T03:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=29259"},"modified":"2017-07-31T16:47:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T23:47:06","slug":"eleni-pratsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/04\/eleni-pratsi\/","title":{"rendered":"eleni pratsi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=29279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29279\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29279\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/EleniPratsi-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"5052\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh my circles! Colors bleeding into each other while contained in perfect circles. This is the work of Paris based painter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saatchiart.com\/eleleleni\">Eleni Pratsi<\/a>. I love her work &#8211;\u00a0oil and acrylic on canvas &#8211; and I love her reasons for obsessing over circles just as much:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; Beyond doubt, the circle plays a favourable role in my paintings. Treating the circular form as if it were the unique letter of my plastic alphabet is based on a personal choice and backed up by a childhood memory: when asked by my instructor, at the age of eleven, as I took my first art lesson to draw a circle, this turned out to be perfect, to Eliza&#8217;s taste. Consciously or unconsciously I recall her overflowing enthusiasm but also my feeling so proud for having traced a circle, my first circle, a perfect circle. With this childhood experience recorded undoubtedly in my subconscious, ten years later I initiated a series of artistic studies through which I&#8217;ve been pursuing, ever since, the perfect circle.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mission accomplished. Happy Friday.<\/p>\n<p><em>{via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saatchiart.com\/eleleleni\">Saatchi Art<\/a>}<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my circles! Colors bleeding into each other while contained in perfect circles. This is the work of Paris based painter Eleni Pratsi. I love her work &#8211;\u00a0oil and acrylic on canvas &#8211; and I love her reasons for obsessing over circles just as much: &#8220;&#8230; Beyond doubt, the circle plays a favourable role in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[176,3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29259"}],"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=29259"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29292,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29259\/revisions\/29292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}