{"id":9096,"date":"2011-03-19T04:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T04:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=9096"},"modified":"2011-03-19T04:00:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T04:00:30","slug":"the-arms-of-the-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/03\/19\/the-arms-of-the-art\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arms of the Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/pantechnicon\/arms.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/arms.jpg\" alt=\"arms.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Arms of the Art (2000).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An addendum to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/03\/15\/splendor-solis\/\"><em>Splendor Solis<\/em> post<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/pantechnicon\/arms.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Arms of the Art<\/em><\/a> was a drawing I did in 2000 intended to inaugurate a series of pencil improvisations based on the <em>Splendor Solis<\/em> alchemical plates. As things turned out I only managed the first in the series (the picture it uses as a starting point is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hermetics.org\/solis.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) and about half of the second one which is languishing in a pad somewhere. Nothing in this drawing was planned or sketched beforehand, it was all done directly onto the paper, the idea being that I&#8217;d take the basic symbols or elements of each plate as a starting point and see what emerged once I began moving the pencil around. What usually emerges in these situations is a kind of abstracted landscape of hybrid forms that could be either mineral, organic or something in between. Some of the paintings I was doing in the 1990s followed a similar process, the challenge being to see how far you can develop things without the result becoming either too pictorial or too abstract; the painting below is an earlier example. I still like the idea of re-interpreting the <em>Splendor Solis<\/em>, and if I didn&#8217;t have other projects in progress I might be prepared to try it again. Maybe later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/pantechnicon\/eidolon.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/eidolon.jpg\" alt=\"eidolon.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Eidolon (1997).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/03\/15\/splendor-solis\/\">Splendor Solis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arms of the Art (2000). An addendum to the Splendor Solis post. The Arms of the Art was a drawing I did in 2000 intended to inaugurate a series of pencil improvisations based on the Splendor Solis alchemical plates. As things turned out I only managed the first in the series (the picture it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/03\/19\/the-arms-of-the-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Arms of the Art&#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":[2,16,44,23],"tags":[559,4190],"class_list":["post-9096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-occult","category-painting","category-work","tag-alchemy","tag-splendor-solis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2mI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9096","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=9096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}