{"id":491,"date":"2010-09-09T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/2010\/what-is-it-about-art\/"},"modified":"2010-09-09T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T08:20:00","slug":"what-is-it-about-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/what-is-it-about-art\/","title":{"rendered":"What is it about art?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When did the creativity bug get you?<\/p>\n<p>Or are you an onlooker, seeing &#8216;arty&#8217; people and wondering if the creativity gift has passed you by?<\/p>\n<p>Is art elitist, only for those who have the time and money to buy it, learn it and do it?<\/p>\n<p>Or is it a universal language of communication, celebration, protest, there for all to make with whatever resources they have around them?<\/p>\n<p>Is art all around you, in everything, or do you have to go to certain places to see &#8216;real&#8217; art?<\/p>\n<p>What <em>is<\/em> it about art and creativity that makes it so powerful, so compelling?<\/p>\n<p>Share your thoughts&#8230;I will too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a little You Tube vid that has been doing the rounds and its about time I posted it here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qpunQZ4cUyI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"385\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qpunQZ4cUyI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When did the creativity bug get you? Or are you an onlooker, seeing &#8216;arty&#8217; people and wondering if the creativity gift has passed you by? Is art elitist, only for those who have the time and money to buy it, learn it and do it? Or is it a universal language of communication, celebration, protest, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,44,12,21,32,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artful-living","category-artful-resources-and-links","category-deep-thoughts-and-reflections","category-developing-as-an-artist","category-for-aspiring-creatives","category-soulful-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}