{"id":5774,"date":"2012-12-04T11:28:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T15:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/?p=5774"},"modified":"2016-12-23T12:21:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T17:21:10","slug":"warren-mintz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/warren-mintz\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren Mintz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Painter<!--more--><\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I retired from full time teaching it became important to explore ways outside the classroom to do something meaningful.\u00a0 One of the possible activities evolved from the poster collages.\u00a0 I could approach the work more systematically and no longer depend on the luck of the draw.\u00a0 I decided to collect cutouts which would feed the process.\u00a0 Almost all of my collages are started by first choosing a background and then buiding upon it.\u00a0 Photographs of Persian carpets, for example, make wonderful backgrounds.\u00a0 Early in the exploration I found myself working in a surprising way.\u00a0 I would lay out as many as ten background and work on ten collages simultaneously.\u00a0 At first I doubted the authenticity of working this way.\u00a0 Over the years I have come to accept it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15284,"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-5774","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\/5774","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=5774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14695,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions\/14695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}