{"id":99,"date":"2011-07-13T16:23:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T16:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sirrealist.com\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2011-07-13T16:24:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T16:24:45","slug":"destruction-by-sir-realist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sirrealist.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/destruction-by-sir-realist\/","title":{"rendered":"Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Completed some years after the painting Creation, Destruction was meant to be a polar opposite in many ways, a companion piece. The dynamic colors and contrast as well as the seeming motion of the fingers and hands was intended to mimic a wave about to crash. In a manner of speaking it is a wave of destruction caught in motion.<\/p>\n<p>This painting is acrylic, in keeping with the opposite nature of it and Creation, and measures 36&#8243; by 36&#8243;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Completed some years after the painting Creation, Destruction was meant to be a polar opposite in many ways, a companion piece. The dynamic colors and contrast as well as the seeming motion of the fingers and hands was intended to mimic a wave about to crash. In a manner of speaking it is a wave &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sirrealist.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/destruction-by-sir-realist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Destruction<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-portfolio","category-slider"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sirrealist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Destruction.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":101,"url":"https:\/\/sirrealist.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/recreation\/","url_meta":{"origin":99,"position":0},"title":"ReCreation","author":"Sir Realist","date":"July 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"ReCreation is just that, a re-imagining of the original Creation painting. 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