{"id":2392,"date":"2013-10-24T09:02:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T13:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2025-02-15T16:18:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T21:18:33","slug":"2392","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/24\/2392\/","title":{"rendered":"Zhang Huan Paintings at Pace Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a radical departure from his monochromatic paintings created by teams of assistants from ash collected from Buddhist temples, Shanghai-based artist Zhang Huan has created a series of oil paintings from his own hand of skulls meant to represent Tibetan Death masks.&nbsp; Titled &lsquo;Poppy Fields,&rsquo; they at first resemble abstract swirls of bright color, which materialize into slightly cartoonish skulls on closer inspection. (At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacegallery.com\/newyork\/exhibitions\/12596\/poppy-fields\" title=\"Pace Gallery\" target=\"_blank\">Pace Gallery<\/a>, 534 West 25th Street, through Oct 26th). &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><em>Zhang Huan, detail from the &lsquo;Poppy Field&rsquo; series, oil on linen, 2011.<\/em><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/files.sendible.com\/4337046\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/files.sendible.com\/4337046\/original.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"0\" style=\"display:none;border:0;\" src=\"http:\/\/tracker.sendible.com\/messages\/8c6b6615-f51b-441f-9f3a-45a4268a651d?service=Wordpress&#038;f=2837624&#038;view=true\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a radical departure from his monochromatic paintings created by teams of assistants from ash collected from Buddhist temples, Shanghai-based artist Zhang Huan has created a series of oil paintings from his own hand of skulls meant to represent Tibetan Death masks.&nbsp; Titled &lsquo;Poppy Fields,&rsquo; they at first resemble abstract swirls of bright color, which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/24\/2392\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zhang Huan Paintings at Pace Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2394,"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":"none","_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":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[8,147,18,1939,481,571,114,432,465,33,1938,1936,1937,1935],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dont-miss","tag-art","tag-art-tour","tag-artist","tag-buddhist-art","tag-chelsea-gallery","tag-chelsea-tour","tag-contemporary-art","tag-gallery-tour","tag-pace-gallery","tag-painting","tag-poppy-fields","tag-skulls","tag-tibetan-death-masks","tag-zhang-huan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/file23.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2BDOD-2392","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","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=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12204,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions\/12204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}