{"id":374,"date":"2012-09-08T03:48:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T07:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/?p=374"},"modified":"2012-09-08T03:54:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T07:54:37","slug":"pitre-on-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/2012\/09\/08\/pitre-on-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitre on Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/explorers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-379\" title=\"explorers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/explorers-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/explorers-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/explorers-450x360.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/explorers.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1997 I visited the home of painter and inventor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpitre.com\" target=\"_blank\">John Pitre<\/a> to interview him for an article for the <a href=\"http:\/\/honoluluweekly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Honolulu Weekly<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The article never ran, but I recently came across my notes, which include this quote from the artist:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Art can be an emotional thing, or it can be just a pretty picture hanging over a couch.\u00c2\u00a0 I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do those.\u00c2\u00a0 It can tell a story, it can represent significant feelings, it can pluck heartstrings, it can be very romantic, it can be an emotional experience, just the same way music can.\u00c2\u00a0 Music can be very simple, having very little meaning, yet be very pretty.\u00c2\u00a0 Or music can tell very deep, personal stories.\u00c2\u00a0 And that is also a portrait, a reflection of the society that the art comes from.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Above: &#8220;Explorers,&#8221; by John Pitre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1997 I visited the home of painter and inventor John Pitre to interview him for an article for the Honolulu Weekly.\u00c2\u00a0 The article never ran, but I recently came across my notes, which include this quote from the artist: Art can be an emotional thing, or it can be just a pretty picture hanging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[40,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}