{"id":705,"date":"2011-01-28T09:52:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T09:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/?p=705"},"modified":"2013-02-20T23:19:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T23:19:33","slug":"ben-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/ben-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Tour Illustration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetourshow.com\/#621275\/ILLUSTRATION\"target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-706\" title=\"082\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/082.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/082.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/082-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canadian-born artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetourshow.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Tour<\/a> (b. 1977) channels a dark, often haunting sense of humanism in his work.<br \/>\nHis observations deftly inform his paintings, enabling him to capture the essence of a character, and then distort that view any way he desires. Frenetic lines, swaths of color, and intimate angles all convey a sense that Tour may not only be drawing inspiration from the lives of strangers he observes, but manifesting his own personal experiences as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian-born artist Ben Tour (b. 1977) channels a dark, often haunting sense of humanism in his work. His observations deftly inform his paintings, enabling him to capture the essence of a character, and then distort that view any way he desires. Frenetic lines, swaths of color, and intimate angles all convey a sense that Tour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12,28],"tags":[48,61,115,128,154],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-and-art","category-clothing-fashion","category-experimental","category-visual-art-photograpy","tag-art","tag-ben-tour","tag-drawing","tag-expressive","tag-illustration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2726,"href":"https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/2726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}