{"id":5759,"date":"2012-12-04T11:16:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T16:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/?p=5759"},"modified":"2017-07-19T14:02:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T18:02:37","slug":"leo-bliok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/leo-bliok\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Bliok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leo Bliok came to Great Neck in 1942 with his parents, a young Belgian refugee escaping the Nazi onslaught in Europe.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Following his service in the Army of Occupation in Germany, he attended Pratt Institute, majoring in illustration.\u00a0 Pursuing a career in graphic design, he eventually became a principal at Atelier 57, a Manhattan-based graphic design firm.<\/p>\n<p>Leo is a member of The Society of Illustrators where he has exhibited in both group and one-man shows.\u00a0 He is the winner of the coveted 1998 American Graphic Design award.<\/p>\n<p>Leo Bliok believes that a very thin line separates illustration from fine art.\u00a0 &#8220;The only difference between fine art and commercial illustration is that in the former you choose the subject matter and the medium and there are not crazy deadlines.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leo Bliok came to Great Neck in 1942 with his parents, a young Belgian refugee escaping the Nazi onslaught in Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artists"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13119,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759\/revisions\/13119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}