{"id":198,"date":"2005-07-16T10:30:35","date_gmt":"2005-07-16T18:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=198"},"modified":"2010-08-06T10:52:03","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T18:52:03","slug":"philip-guston-homage-my-life-in-a-nutshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/16\/philip-guston-homage-my-life-in-a-nutshell\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Guston Homage, My Life In A Nutshell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did some work on my page with my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/oldhomepage\/links.htm\" target=\"_blank\">paintings<\/a> yesterday, making the images better.  Here&rsquo;s a new scan that&rsquo;s nice, &ldquo;My Life in a Nutshell,&rdquo; from 2003.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/mylife.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>My Life in a Nutshell, 24\u201d\u009d by 20\u201d\u009d, March, 2003,.  Oil on canvas.  Click here to see <a target=\"blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images2\/12_mylifeinanutshell1000.jpg\">larger image<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My picture is based on the 1975 painting &ldquo;Head and Bottle&rdquo; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/guston\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Guston<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/guston.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve always loved this picture by Guston; it&rsquo;s such a great representation of obsession with alcohol.  My take-off, or homage, picture shows a guy who&rsquo;s enslaved himself to his keyboard instead. His only hope of escape may be the alien inside the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did some work on my page with my paintings yesterday, making the images better. Here&rsquo;s a new scan that&rsquo;s nice, &ldquo;My Life in a Nutshell,&rdquo; from 2003. My Life in a Nutshell, 24\u201d\u009d by 20\u201d\u009d, March, 2003,. Oil on canvas. Click here to see larger image. My picture is based on the 1975 painting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}