{"id":15483,"date":"2014-08-02T02:52:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T01:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=15483"},"modified":"2014-08-02T02:52:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T01:52:15","slug":"august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/08\/02\/august\/","title":{"rendered":"August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/arts\/yourpaintings\/paintings\/twelve-months-of-flowers-august-4421\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"august1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/august1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Twelve Months of Flowers: August (no date) by Jacob van Huysum.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The eighth month in paintings. Alan Bennett is a British artist, not to be confused with the well-known British playwright of the same name. There is, however, a slight connection between playwright and Henry Scott Tuke: Bennett&#8217;s BBC film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.screenonline.org.uk\/tv\/id\/1178731\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Portrait or Bust<\/em><\/a> (1994) involves an exploration of Leeds Art Gallery during which there&#8217;s a glimpse of Tuke&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/arts\/yourpaintings\/paintings\/the-bathers-38475\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Bathers<\/em><\/a>, one of the artist&#8217;s many studies of unclothed boys.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/arts\/yourpaintings\/paintings\/august-blue-202253\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"august8.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/august8.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>August Blue (1893\u20134) by Henry Scott Tuke.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/arts\/yourpaintings\/paintings\/august-afternoon-near-dorking\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"august7.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/august7.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>August Afternoon near Dorking (1904) by TF Wilkinson.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/duckieoverblane.tumblr.com\/post\/28580473420\/august-in-the-city-edward-hopper\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"august2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/august2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>August in the City (1945) by Edward Hopper.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/arts\/yourpaintings\/paintings\/moths-and-men-with-hay-august-1484\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"august3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/august3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Moths and Men with Hay, August (1960) by Mary Newcomb.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/arts\/yourpaintings\/paintings\/august-landscape-180521\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"august6.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/august6.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>August Landscape (1967) by Alan Bennett.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/arts\/yourpaintings\/paintings\/blackberries-in-august-muswell-hill-london-51882\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"august4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/august4.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Blackberries in August, Muswell Hill, London (1980) by John Pearce.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/arts\/yourpaintings\/paintings\/august-painting-big-blue-226730\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"august5.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/august5.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>August Painting (Big Blue) (2002) by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve Months of Flowers: August (no date) by Jacob van Huysum. The eighth month in paintings. Alan Bennett is a British artist, not to be confused with the well-known British playwright of the same name. There is, however, a slight connection between playwright and Henry Scott Tuke: Bennett&#8217;s BBC film Portrait or Bust (1994) involves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/08\/02\/august\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;August&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,44],"tags":[1012,6313,6311,6309,6005,6314,6312,6310,5820],"class_list":["post-15483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-painting","tag-alan-bennett","tag-alan-bennett-artist","tag-edward-hopper","tag-henry-scott-tuke","tag-jacob-van-huysum","tag-john-pearce","tag-mary-newcomb","tag-tf-wilkinson","tag-wilhelmina-barns-graham"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sq7rV-august","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}