{"id":31065,"date":"2018-03-16T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=31065"},"modified":"2018-03-16T06:37:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T13:37:35","slug":"vincent-xeus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/16\/vincent-xeus\/","title":{"rendered":"vincent xeus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/16\/vincent-xeus\/vincentxeus-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31068\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31068\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/VincentXeus-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"3576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/VincentXeus-1.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/VincentXeus-1-49x300.jpg 49w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/VincentXeus-1-167x1024.jpg 167w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, so dreamy. These ice creamy-colored oil paintings are the work of China-born, California-based artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentxeus.com\/\">Vincent Xeus<\/a>. All of them have a old meets new feeling&#8230; perhaps this is why:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>[via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/artist\/vincent-xeus\">Artsy<\/a>] &#8220;Vincent Xeus\u2019s atmospheric portraits are driven by a reverence for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/gene\/old-masters\">Italian and Dutch Old Master paintings<\/a>\u00a0as well as a desire to challenge classical constraints. \u201cI loved their traditions and I had an equally strong desire to break away from it,\u201d he has said of 16th- and 17th-century artists. \u201cThis conflict gave me struggle, and the struggle kept painting alive for me.\u201d After immigrating to the United States from China to pursue a career in architecture, Xeus shifted his focus to oil painting. In portraits of historical figures, cultural idols, and personal friends, Xeus combines traditional techniques such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/gene\/impasto\">impasto<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/gene\/chiaroscuro\">chiaroscuro<\/a>\u00a0with bold strokes and idiosyncratic details that disrupt otherwise classical compositions.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beautiful. Happy Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, so dreamy. These ice creamy-colored oil paintings are the work of China-born, California-based artist Vincent Xeus. All of them have a old meets new feeling&#8230; perhaps this is why: [via Artsy] &#8220;Vincent Xeus\u2019s atmospheric portraits are driven by a reverence for\u00a0Italian and Dutch Old Master paintings\u00a0as well as a desire to challenge classical constraints. [&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\/31065"}],"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=31065"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31074,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31065\/revisions\/31074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}