{"id":8476,"date":"2019-12-14T10:30:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T15:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=8476"},"modified":"2019-12-13T13:27:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T18:27:48","slug":"li-songsong-at-pace-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/14\/li-songsong-at-pace-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Li Songsong at Pace Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after his grandfather died, Beijing-based artist Li Songsong began painting this portrait of him absorbed in a personal moment.\u00a0 Using a thick oil painting technique that obscures detail, the artist explains that he nevertheless captured the essence of the man.\u00a0 The takeaway for the artist was to observe how painting can embody truths that the artist himself may not even want to acknowledge. \u00a0(On view at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacegallery.com\/exhibitions\/li-songsong-8\/\">Pace Gallery<\/a> in Chelsea through Dec 21<sup>st<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8477\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8477\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=8477\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8477\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8477\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/li_songsong.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/li_songsong.jpg 736w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/li_songsong-150x122.jpg 150w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/li_songsong-491x400.jpg 491w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Li Songsong, Civil Rather Than Military, oil on canvas, 82 11\/16\u201d x 8\u2019 6 3\/8\u201d, 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after his grandfather died, Beijing-based artist Li Songsong began painting this portrait of him absorbed in a personal moment.\u00a0 Using a thick oil painting technique that obscures detail, the artist explains that he nevertheless captured the essence of the man.\u00a0 The takeaway for the artist was to observe how painting can embody truths that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/14\/li-songsong-at-pace-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Li Songsong at Pace Gallery&#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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[5,27,4],"tags":[8,117,2166,8667,13,5620,8666,3340,856,33,16],"class_list":["post-8476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-chelsea","tag-chinese","tag-civil-rather-than-military","tag-gallery","tag-impasto","tag-li-songsong","tag-pace","tag-painter","tag-painting","tag-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2cI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476","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=8476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8478,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476\/revisions\/8478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}