{"id":609,"date":"2005-08-08T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-08T08:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=609"},"modified":"2005-08-08T08:08:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-08T08:08:00","slug":"on-squares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"On Squares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has become apparent to me that I&#8217;m back into abstraction with a vengeance.<\/p>\n<p>My exercises with representational art have brought me full circle to where I was about ten years ago. That being the case, serious thought has to be given to the shape of the final art piece &#8211; and that shape should be the square. It&#8217;s clear to me that I am making images on paper or canvas &#8211; these are not windows or doors &#8211; rectangles if you will. Squares are for the most part neutral in format &#8211; neither speaking of landscape or portrait, but of space vertical as well as horizontal. I&#8217;m sure to break this occasionally, but it will be for reason as opposed simply optical reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has become apparent to me that I&#8217;m back into abstraction with a vengeance. My exercises with representational art have brought me full circle to where I was about ten years ago. That being the case, serious thought has to be given to the shape of the final art piece &#8211; and that shape should be the square. It&#8217;s clear to me that I am making images on paper or canvas &#8211; these are not windows or doors &#8211; rectangles if you will. Squares are for the most part neutral in format &#8211; neither speaking of landscape or portrait, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=609\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On Squares<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}