{"id":15439,"date":"2023-03-30T12:24:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T19:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/?p=15439"},"modified":"2023-03-30T12:26:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T19:26:45","slug":"15439","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/15439.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Vincent von Gogh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this day, March 30, 1890, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vangoghmuseum.nl\/en\/art-and-stories\/art\/vincent-van-gogh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vincent van Gogh<\/a> was born in Zundert, Netherlands. He once wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat am I in the eyes of most people&#8230; a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person, somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low.<\/p>\n<p>All right, then&#8230; even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion.<\/p>\n<p>Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15441\" style=\"width: 1149px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15441\" src=\"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/vincent.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1149\" height=\"904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/vincent.jpg 1149w, https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/vincent-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/vincent-400x315.jpg 400w, https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/vincent-768x604.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1149px) 100vw, 1149px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Self-Portrait&#8221; (Detail). Vincent van Gogh. Oil on board. 1887.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day, March 30, 1890, Vincent van Gogh was born in Zundert, Netherlands. He once wrote: \u201cWhat am I in the eyes of most people&#8230; a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person, somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then&#8230; even if that were absolutely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}