{"id":8600,"date":"2013-04-23T01:44:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T08:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=8600"},"modified":"2013-04-23T01:57:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T08:57:38","slug":"art-without-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2013\/04\/23\/art-without-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Art Give Us Hope?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Art Scene]<\/p>\n<h1>A Recent Event in Connecticut<\/h1>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"reviewermag\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><b>By Jason Stoneking<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t realize until quite recently that on some level I am actively looking for hope. If you would have asked me a few years ago, I might well have said that the portrayal of hope was somehow sappy or pedestrian, something better left to the realm of Disney movies and Chicken Soup books, and kept out of the sacred, lofty worlds of fine art and literature. But lately, I have to admit that the occasional appearance of this hope stuff in the arts hasn\u2019t been looking so bad to me. In fact, I\u2019ve even been starting to really appreciate it, and I\u2019ve been meaning to ask myself why. For one thing, I suppose there\u2019s the alternative to consider: art without hope.<\/p>\n<h4>Read more on the Reviewer Fine Art blog <a href=\"http:\/\/fineartreviewer.com\/news\/?p=77\">HERE<\/a>.<\/h4>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/fineartreviewer.com\/news\/?p=77\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fineartreviewer.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Charter-Oak1-1024x768.jpg?w=600\" ><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Art Scene] A Recent Event in Connecticut Tweet By Jason Stoneking I didn\u2019t realize until quite recently that on some level I am actively looking for hope. If you would have asked me a few years ago, I might well have said that the portrayal of hope was somehow sappy or pedestrian, something better left to the realm of Disney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[574,582,730,625],"tags":[821,822],"class_list":["post-8600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-nightlife","category-opinion","category-update","tag-art-scene","tag-connecticut"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2490,"url":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2010\/06\/10\/art-scene-water-gypsy-by-irina-negulescu\/","url_meta":{"origin":8600,"position":0},"title":"One San Diego Artist&#8217;s Underwater Theme","author":"admin","date":"June 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"[art scene]\"Water Gypsy\" by Irina NegulescuBelow: large original oil painting (7-feet by 7-feet) titled \"Water Gypsy\" currently for sale in the Little Italy studio of the artist Irina Negulescu, Coalesce Gallery, 2360 India Street, San Diego CA 92101. 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