{"id":2122,"date":"2007-07-03T01:15:24","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T00:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2009-12-05T06:09:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T05:09:44","slug":"smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/07\/03\/smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.muchafoundation.org\/mucha\/showimage.php?imid=39\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/smoke1.jpg\" alt=\"smoke1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Advertising poster for Job cigarette papers by Alphonse Mucha (1898). <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The law forbidding smoking in public places finally <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/6258034.stm\" target=\"_blank\">came into effect in England on Sunday<\/a>, something that the nation&#8217;s smokers are still coming to terms with. I&#8217;ve never been a smoker but have always been easy-going about the activity, having had smoking parents and been around smokers for years. That said, it&#8217;ll be nice to go out now and not return home smelling like an ashtray.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the passing of a nicotine-stained era, here&#8217;s a few of the many representations of smoking in the art world. Until I started looking for pictures today I hadn&#8217;t realised how many paintings there are of people (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artrenewal.org\/asp\/database\/image.asp?id=211\" target=\"_blank\">dogs<\/a>!) having smoke blown in their faces, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artrenewal.org\/asp\/database\/image.asp?id=19357\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgallery.org.uk\/cgi-bin\/WebObjects.dll\/CollectionPublisher.woa\/wa\/work?workNumber=NG2555\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artrenewal.org\/asp\/database\/image.asp?id=1530\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/smoke2.jpg\" alt=\"smoke2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Opium Smoker by Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du No\u00fcy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artrenewal.org\/asp\/database\/image.asp?id=28827\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/smoke3.jpg\" alt=\"smoke3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A Voluptuous Smoke by Charles Edouard Edmond Delort.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/02\/10\/perfume-the-art-of-scent\/\">Perfume: the art of scent<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/06\/08\/german-opium-smokers-1900\/\">German opium smokers, 1900<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advertising poster for Job cigarette papers by Alphonse Mucha (1898). The law forbidding smoking in public places finally came into effect in England on Sunday, something that the nation&#8217;s smokers are still coming to terms with. I&#8217;ve never been a smoker but have always been easy-going about the activity, having had smoking parents and been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/07\/03\/smoke\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Smoke&#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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[58,2,4,851,44],"tags":[905],"class_list":["post-2122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-nouveau","category-art","category-design","category-drugs","category-painting","tag-alphonse-mucha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sq7rV-smoke","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122","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=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}