{"id":4724,"date":"2018-05-02T09:19:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/?p=4724"},"modified":"2018-09-05T09:47:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T15:47:55","slug":"new-painting-exhibition-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/?p=4724","title":{"rendered":"New Painting \/ Exhibition Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4725\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4725\" style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Bestow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4725\" src=\"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Bestow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Bestow.jpg 575w, https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Bestow-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Bestow-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Bestow&#8221; by Amy Guidry; Acrylic on canvas; 6&#8243; x 6&#8243;; SOLD; (c) Amy Guidry 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4728\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/salvador-dali-pet-ocelot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4728\" src=\"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/salvador-dali-pet-ocelot-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/salvador-dali-pet-ocelot-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/salvador-dali-pet-ocelot-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/salvador-dali-pet-ocelot-768x1020.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salvador Dali with ocelot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Very excited to reveal my new painting, <em>Bestow<\/em>, created for WOW x WOW&#8217;s upcoming online exhibition, &#8220;Super Reverie.&#8221;\u00a0 <em>Bestow<\/em> is an acrylic on canvas, 6&#8243; wide by 6&#8243; high.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been fascinated by ocelots since a very young age.\u00a0 (And apparently Surrealist painter Salvador Dali is a fan.)\u00a0 As mentioned before, I knew all the big cats so well I could identify them solely by their patterning (without seeing their faces).\u00a0 I paired the ocelot and bees in this piece because of their similar colors and patterns.\u00a0 Because of bees, plants are pollinated and ultimately provide food systems for all animals.\u00a0 The bees surround the ocelot and adorn his head as if they are bestowing him with life.\u00a0 The human eye refers to our connection with all of nature.\u00a0 You can view the painting online here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amyguidry.com\/bestow.html\">https:\/\/amyguidry.com\/bestow.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit opens May 4th, 7pm BST, and will remain up through May 25th.\u00a0 More details and view the exhibition:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wowxwow.com\/product-category\/super-reverie\">https:\/\/wowxwow.com\/product-category\/super-reverie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.AmyGuidry.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.AmyGuidry.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get the latest updates via my monthly newsletter: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amyguidry.com\/contact.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.amyguidry.com\/contact.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/amy_guidry_artist\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/amy_guidry_artist\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow me on Facebook: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Amy-Guidry\/51953219932\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.facebook.com\/pages\/Amy-Guidry\/51953219932<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very excited to reveal my new painting, Bestow, created for WOW x WOW&#8217;s upcoming online exhibition, &#8220;Super Reverie.&#8221;\u00a0 Bestow is an acrylic on canvas, 6&#8243; wide by 6&#8243; high.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been fascinated by ocelots since a very young age.\u00a0 (And apparently Surrealist painter Salvador Dali is a fan.)\u00a0 As mentioned before, I knew all the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/?p=4724\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Painting \/ Exhibition Opening<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":4725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[1544,1182,1506,1341,107,1560,909,1561,1009,1554,1321,1532,1546,1514,465,34,330,5,55,1558,1281,1209,636,1038,512,1510,1254,54,95,374,1553,517,13,164,397,767,331,1504],"class_list":["post-4724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-exhibitions","category-paintings","tag-animal-art","tag-animal-welfare","tag-big-cats","tag-contemporary-art","tag-exhibition","tag-honey-bee","tag-in-our-veins","tag-salvador-dali","tag-southern-artist","tag-super-reverie","tag-vegan-artist","tag-wild-cats","tag-wildlife-art","tag-wow-x-wow","tag-acadiana","tag-amy-guidry","tag-animals","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-bees","tag-cats","tag-conservation","tag-contemporary","tag-dali","tag-ecology","tag-endangered","tag-insects","tag-lafayette","tag-louisiana","tag-nature","tag-ocelot","tag-painter","tag-painting","tag-surreal","tag-surrealism","tag-surrealist","tag-vegan","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4724"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4793,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions\/4793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}