{"id":1180,"date":"2012-07-23T14:54:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T18:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2012-07-23T14:54:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T18:54:11","slug":"john-dilg-in-the-big-picture-at-sikkema-jenkins-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/23\/john-dilg-in-the-big-picture-at-sikkema-jenkins-co\/","title":{"rendered":"John Dilg in &#8216;The Big Picture&#8217; at Sikkema Jenkins &#038; Co"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1181\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/john_dilg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1181\" title=\"John Dilg, 'A Religious Experience,' 2009 - 10, oil on canvas, 14 x 11 in.\" src=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/john_dilg-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"John Dilg, 'A Religious Experience,' 2009 - 10, oil on canvas, 14 x 11 in.\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/john_dilg-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/john_dilg-801x1024.jpg 801w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/john_dilg.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Dilg, &#8216;A Religious Experience,&#8217; 2009 &#8211; 10, oil on canvas, 14 x 11 in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>John Dilg is no outsider artist (he\u2019s an art professor at the University of Iowa) &#8211; though his pared down painting style may look unskilled it purges unnecessary details from his eerie, uninhabited landscapes.\u00a0 Muted colors and hazy lines add to the ambiguity of this scene titled, \u2018A Religious Experience.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0 Monumental in theme but not size (at 11 x 14 inches, it\u2019s a little larger than book size), Dilg invites personal interpretations as he evokes a cascade of water or mountain capped by cloud a la Moses on Mt Sinai. (\u2018The Big Picture,\u2019 a group show of small-scale painting, is on view at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sikkemajenkinsco.com\/?v=exhibition&amp;exhibition=4fc3d9a8c932a\" target=\"_blank\">Sikkema Jenkins &amp; Co<\/a> through July 27<sup>th<\/sup>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Dilg is no outsider artist (he\u2019s an art professor at the University of Iowa) &#8211; though his pared down painting style may look unskilled it purges unnecessary details from his eerie, uninhabited landscapes.\u00a0 Muted colors and hazy lines add to the ambiguity of this scene titled, \u2018A Religious Experience.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0 Monumental in theme but not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/23\/john-dilg-in-the-big-picture-at-sikkema-jenkins-co\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Dilg in &#8216;The Big Picture&#8217; at Sikkema Jenkins &#038; Co&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[221,220,33,222,223],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","tag-a-religious-experience","tag-john-dilg","tag-painting","tag-sikkema-jenkins","tag-the-big-picture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-j2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}