{"id":4545,"date":"2019-04-16T12:27:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T12:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/16\/dreamlike-narratives-of-solitary-figures-lost-in-thought-colossal\/"},"modified":"2019-04-16T12:27:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T12:27:23","slug":"dreamlike-narratives-of-solitary-figures-lost-in-thought-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/16\/dreamlike-narratives-of-solitary-figures-lost-in-thought-colossal\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreamlike Narratives of Solitary Figures Lost in Thought | Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Los Angeles-based artist <\/span><\/span>Andrew Hem<\/a> <\/span>paints stylized scenes of solitary figures caught in moments of motion, introspection, and reverence. While integrated into their surroundings through carefully modulated color palettes, the figures\u2019 floating poses and distant expressions suggest a dreamlike state. In an <\/span><\/span>artist statement<\/a>, Hem cites an early interest in graffiti as informing his current narrative style, which he creates with a combination of gouache, oil, and acrylic paint.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2019\/04\/andrew-hem-paintings\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love these. Los Angeles-based artist Andrew Hem paints stylized scenes of solitary figures caught in moments of motion, introspection, and reverence. While integrated into their surroundings through carefully modulated color palettes, the figures\u2019 floating poses and distant expressions suggest a dreamlike state. In an artist statement, Hem cites an early interest in graffiti as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1bj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}