{"id":6382,"date":"2013-01-11T21:04:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T03:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=6382"},"modified":"2013-01-11T21:04:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T03:04:54","slug":"video-artist-maud-lewis-a-world-without-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/video-artist-maud-lewis-a-world-without-shadows\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Artist Maud Lewis &#8211; A World Without Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/maud_lewis_a_world_without_shadows\/embed\/player\" width=\"550\" height=\"359\" ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know how you keep a [little] of your childhood inside of you, a place to go when things aren&#8217;t going right? That&#8217;s what you see when you look at one of Maud&#8217;s paintings. It&#8217;s that world from when you were a child.. with no shadows in it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I seriously love the National Film Board of Canada&#8230; so many quality films and animations &#8211; I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time on their website over the years. About this video (from nfb.ca): &#8220;Set against a background of her paintings and the Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, landscapes they depict, this short documentary is a portrait of the life and work of one of Canada&#8217;s foremost primitive painters, Maud Lewis. Emerging from her youth crippled with arthritis, Lewis escaped into her painting at the age of 30. She had never seen a work of art and had never attended an art class but her paintings captured the simple strength, beauty and happiness of the world she saw &#8211; a world without shadows.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You know how you keep a [little] of your childhood inside of you, a place to go when things aren&#8217;t going right? That&#8217;s what you see when you look at one of Maud&#8217;s paintings. It&#8217;s that world from when you were a child.. with no shadows in it.&#8221; I seriously love the National Film Board [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6383,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382\/revisions\/6383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}