{"id":303,"date":"2015-05-30T12:24:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T11:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/?p=303"},"modified":"2015-05-30T14:15:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T13:15:26","slug":"neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"Neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,times,serif; color: #000000;\">Of course no less than Goya and Gericault have checked in on this, as you probably know already.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,times,serif; color: #000000;\">I&#8217;ve never taught art, yet I want to add something awkward but vital &#8211; that art isn&#8217;t a positive force in the present. Rather, its power resides in its neutrality. With the pressures that come with doing artwork, that is something easy to lose- it&#8217;s a stance tough to balance with socialization, but art doesn&#8217;t constitute a contribution to society <em>per se<\/em> &#8211; you can&#8217;t\u00a0 let students go without an awareness that they&#8217;re going to have to find a way to redeem their choice of devoting time to artwork.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,times,serif; color: #000000;\">Alex Stein, artist<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,times,serif; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/tenderandendangeredcowhorseofdimness.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tenderandendangeredcowhorseofdimness.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course no less than Goya and Gericault have checked in on this, as you probably know already. I&#8217;ve never taught art, yet I want to add something awkward but vital &#8211; that art isn&#8217;t a positive force in the present. Rather, its power resides in its neutrality. With the pressures that come with doing&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/?p=303\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Neutrality<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.22thesesonarteducation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}