{"id":53602,"date":"2012-03-23T16:07:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T20:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?page_id=53602"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:22:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:22:04","slug":"senex12-ellie-mcdonald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/23\/senex12-ellie-mcdonald\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Exhibition artist Ellie McDonald &#8217;12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_53736\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/senex12-ellie-mcdonald\/senex12-mcdonald_1173-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53736\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53736\" class=\"wp-image-53736\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-McDonald_11731.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;After Hans Baldung, sister&quot; (detail), charcoal and pencil on paper by Ellie McDonald, 2012.\" width=\"460\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-McDonald_11731.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-McDonald_11731-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-McDonald_11731-383x500.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;After Hans Baldung, sister&#8221; (detail), charcoal and pencil on paper by Ellie McDonald, 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>McDonald of Manchester, Mass., describes herself as &#8220;fascinated by every part of a face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her goal for her senior thesis artwork was simply to expand her command of drawing, and she turned to master artists such as Rubens, Degas and D\u00fcrer for guidance. &#8220;But as I looked through history,&#8221; she says, &#8220;I realized that my drawings address certain classical representations of women in a very direct yet subtle way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/23\/senex12\/\">Return to the main 2012 Senior Exhibition story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald of Manchester, Mass., describes herself as &#8220;fascinated by every part of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53602","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=53602"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119075,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53602\/revisions\/119075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}