{"id":186,"date":"2005-09-15T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2022-10-13T12:11:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T19:11:44","slug":"bloody-carnival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/bloody-carnival.html","title":{"rendered":"A Bloody Carnival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the madness swirling around driving everybody insane, you\u2019d think more artists would have something to say about our present situation. While I wait for them to catch up, I\u2019ll be creating my own riotous responses on canvas. In the meantime, here\u2019s a quote to whet your appetites:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The heaviest burden of all is the pressure of the war and the increasing superficialty. It gives me incessantly the impression of a bloody carnival. I feel as though the outcome is in the air and everything is topsy-turvy. Swollen, I stagger to work, but all my work is in vain and the mediocre is tearing everything down in it\u2019s onslaught. I\u2019m now like the whores I used to paint. Washed out, gone next time. All the same, I keep on trying to get some order in my thoughts and to create a picture of the age out of the confusion &#8211; which is after all my function.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, the words are not mine, though they could have been. They were written by German artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.art-for-a-change.com\/Express\/ex21.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ernst Ludwig Kirchner<\/a> in 1916.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the madness swirling around driving everybody insane, you\u2019d think more artists would have something to say about our present situation. While I wait for them to catch up, I\u2019ll be creating my own riotous responses on canvas. In the meantime, here\u2019s a quote to whet your appetites: &#8220;The heaviest burden of all is the pressure of the war&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-german-expressionism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","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=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}