{"id":41270,"date":"2011-03-23T16:01:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T20:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=41270"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:22:46","slug":"senior-exhibition-skarstad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/03\/23\/senior-exhibition-skarstad\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Exhibition 2011: Anna Skarstad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/04\/anna-skarstad-groenengii-2011-oil-canvas-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/04\/anna-skarstad-groenengii-2011-oil-canvas-web.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large alignright\" alt=\"Groeneng II by Anna Skarstad &#039;11\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Skarstad&#8217;s approach to painting has progressed from making representational landscapes into abstraction. Abstraction allows the work to be &#8220;about the paint on the surface, and not the specific landscape being depicted,&#8221; she says. &#8220;It&#8217;s about how colors and forms interact.&#8221; Her work, she says, is &#8220;simply an experiment in complexity of mark making, diversity of stroke, building and rebuilding, and delicious color.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2011\/03\/24\/senior-exhibition2011\/\"><em>Return to the main Senior Exhibition story<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skarstad&#8217;s approach to painting has progressed from making representational landscapes into abstraction.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,11010,133],"tags":[2885,10576],"class_list":["post-41270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-arts","category-creativity","tag-art-and-visual-culture","tag-class-of-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86846,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41270\/revisions\/86846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}