{"id":5354,"date":"2024-03-23T08:50:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T14:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/?p=5354"},"modified":"2025-08-26T14:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:07:30","slug":"duality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/?p=5354","title":{"rendered":"Duality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Duality-watermark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Duality-watermark-1024x507.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5355\" style=\"width:800px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Duality-watermark-1024x507.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Duality-watermark-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Duality-watermark-768x380.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Duality-watermark-1536x760.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Duality-watermark.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Duality&#8221; by Amy Guidry; Acrylic on canvas; 20&#8243; x 10&#8243;; (c) Amy Guidry 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Introducing my newest painting <em>Duality<\/em>, created for Modern Eden Gallery&#8217;s Precious Metal exhibition.  <em>Duality<\/em> is a dynamic juxtaposition of the rainbow, a symbol of harmony, and the medieval lion, a symbol sometimes associated with danger or war.  In Irish folklore, leprechauns hid gold at the end of the rainbow, but such treasures come at a cost.  Which is why I leave it to the viewer to decide, just as it is up to each of us to choose our own path.  Precious Metal is open now through April 4th at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco.  <em>Duality<\/em> is an acrylic on canvas, 20&#8243; wide by 10&#8243; high, and available online here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moderneden.com\/collections\/precious-metal\/products\/duality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.moderneden.com\/collections\/precious-metal\/products\/duality<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-50d220a5-60b6-44d2-abf5-f6df99c8cb01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amyguidry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.AmyGuidry.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-885865a1-c207-4fdf-a7d5-27e097be2d6a\">Get the latest updates via my monthly newsletter: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amyguidry.com\/contact.html\" target=\"_blank\">www.amyguidry.com\/contact.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-cd37ae53-7ed1-48d3-ae12-7bf94fde0738\">Instagram: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/amy_guidry_artist\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/amy_guidry_artist\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" id=\"block-29924487-b7c4-44a4-a6a1-9a5cc184ebcf\">Facebook: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AmyGuidryArt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.facebook.com\/AmyGuidryArt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing my newest painting Duality, created for Modern Eden Gallery&#8217;s Precious Metal exhibition. Duality is a dynamic juxtaposition of the rainbow, a symbol of harmony, and the medieval lion, a symbol sometimes associated with danger or war. In Irish folklore, leprechauns hid gold at the end of the rainbow, but such treasures come at a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/?p=5354\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Duality<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[1506,1341,107,1577,1338,1618,1366,1622,1846,1214,1009,1321,465,34,5,55,149,636,53,54,1517,95,374,517,13,1843,1565,1842,164,397,767,331],"class_list":["post-5354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-exhibitions","category-paintings","tag-big-cats","tag-contemporary-art","tag-exhibition","tag-home-decor","tag-interior-design","tag-lafayette-artist","tag-modern-eden","tag-new-contemporary","tag-new-surrealism","tag-san-francisco","tag-southern-artist","tag-vegan-artist","tag-acadiana","tag-amy-guidry","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-california","tag-contemporary","tag-gallery","tag-lafayette","tag-lion","tag-louisiana","tag-nature","tag-painter","tag-painting","tag-rain","tag-rainbow","tag-raindrops","tag-surreal","tag-surrealism","tag-surrealist","tag-vegan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354","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=5354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5388,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354\/revisions\/5388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}