{"id":2932,"date":"2013-05-06T11:58:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T11:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2013-05-06T12:16:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T12:16:06","slug":"why-artist-statements-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=2932","title":{"rendered":"Why artist statements help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Calvins-artists-statement.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2933\" alt=\"Calvins-artists-statement\" src=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Calvins-artists-statement.jpg\" width=\"305\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Calvins-artists-statement.jpg 305w, https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Calvins-artists-statement-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A great reflection on how an artist statement can actually help, without sounding pretentious, obscure or condescending from <a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/69378\/in-defense-of-the-artist-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hyperallergic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;I challenge artists to stop looking outside for language and to start digging on the inside for why they do what they do. No one else knows what gets you up in the morning and makes you finish a painting on the way to your day job, or what problems you\u2019re trying to solve in the world by depicting characters a certain way, or why you found that imagery compelling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A great reflection on how an artist statement can actually help, without sounding pretentious, obscure or condescending from Hyperallergic: &#8220;I challenge artists to stop looking outside for language and to start digging on the inside for why they do what they do. No one else knows what gets you up in the morning and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why artist statements help - represent<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=2932\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why artist statements help - represent\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; A great reflection on how an artist statement can actually help, without sounding pretentious, obscure or condescending from Hyperallergic: &#8220;I challenge artists to stop looking outside for language and to start digging on the inside for why they do what they do. 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