{"id":34306,"date":"2019-09-03T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=34306"},"modified":"2019-09-01T08:19:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T15:19:17","slug":"joerg-dressler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/03\/joerg-dressler\/","title":{"rendered":"joerg dressler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=34308\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34308\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/joerg_dressler.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"4789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/joerg_dressler.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/joerg_dressler-125x1024.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crisp geometrics and organic subject matter living harmoniously in the work <em>{acrylic on canvas}<\/em> of German-born, US based artist <a href=\"http:\/\/joergdressler.com\">Joerg Dressler<\/a>. <em>Sigh. <\/em>Those canvas shapes, his palette choices, beautifully balanced compositions&#8230; I could <em>not<\/em> love these more. Now, while I <em>oooh<\/em> and <em>aaaah<\/em> over all of that, you can read an excerpt from his artist statement which gets to the root of what he does:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;While remaining uniquely his own visual communication, the\u00a0vocabulary for his work is drawn from a cross-section of art history: Romanticism, Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, graphic design and photography.\u00a0&#8216;Joerg evokes sublime depictions of our confrontation with nature, especially the contrary effects of nature on the human psyche,&#8217; writes Christopher Busa in Provincetown Arts. &#8216;He places tranquility side by side with violence, light clashing with the dark, fragility beside boldness\u2014surprising forces seemingly summoned on a whim, with involuntary energy.&#8217; Recurring themes in Joerg\u2019s work include the passage of time, impermanence, frailty, and perception.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes! Romanticism and pop art&#8230; of <em>course<\/em> that&#8217;s the love affair behind these paintings!<\/p>\n<p><em>{Found via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artistsonlyao.com\">Artists Only<\/a>}<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crisp geometrics and organic subject matter living harmoniously in the work {acrylic on canvas} of German-born, US based artist Joerg Dressler. Sigh. Those canvas shapes, his palette choices, beautifully balanced compositions&#8230; I could not love these more. Now, while I oooh and aaaah over all of that, you can read an excerpt from his artist [&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\/34306"}],"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=34306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34311,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34306\/revisions\/34311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}