{"id":55,"date":"2014-04-09T18:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T22:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/?p=55"},"modified":"2018-03-24T17:21:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T21:21:51","slug":"chuck-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/chuck-close","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chuck Close\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/images\/guests\/ChuckClose.gif\" \/>When we see a painting hanging on the hallowed walls of a museum, we get a sense of an artist&#8217;s technique and imagination, but we don&#8217;t get a sense of the process and hurdles that artist faced on the way to critical acclaim. What goes on behind the scenes, or behind the canvas? How does a starving artist becoming a financially secure cultural icon?<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Harris speaks with one such artist, Chuck Close. Chuck is considered one of the leading contemporary painters of the 20th and 21st century. His works hang in New York&#8217;s Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, the Walker Museum in Minneapolis, and the National Gallery in Washington DC, just to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Many of us are familiar with his work, but this show makes us more familiar with his life, as he tells us how he built a successful art career, from scratch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we see a painting hanging on the hallowed walls of a museum, we get a sense of an artist&#8217;s technique and imagination, but we don&#8217;t get a sense of the process and hurdles that artist faced on the way to critical acclaim. What goes on behind the scenes, or behind the canvas? How does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3385,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/3385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}