{"id":217,"date":"2007-03-26T09:42:50","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T09:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/contemporaryartetc.com\/2007\/03\/26\/fact-of-the-day-39\/"},"modified":"2007-03-26T09:42:50","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T09:42:50","slug":"fact-of-the-day-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/fact-of-the-day-39\/","title":{"rendered":"Art e-Facts 39"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"alison-watt-2.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/contemporaryartetc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/alison-watt-2.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alison Watt<\/strong> was born in Greenock in 1965 and studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1983 to 1988. She gained early recognition as a painter, winning the National Portrait Gallery&#8217;s annual award as a student, then a commission to paint the Queen Mother&#8217;s portrait in 1989. Inspired by the nineteenth century painter Ingres, Watt&#8217;s portraits often focus upon the drapery which is traditionally used as a backdrop for the sitter. In her recent large-scale works, the human figure is entirely absent, allowing the texture and folds of the fabric to take centre stage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR INFORMATION ON FINE ART COURSES IN EDINBURGH PLEASE <a title=\"http:\/\/fineartetc.wordpress.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/fineartetc.wordpress.com\/\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Alison Watt was born in Greenock in 1965 and studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1983 to 1988. She gained early recognition as a painter, winning the National Portrait Gallery&#8217;s annual award as a student, then a commission to paint the Queen Mother&#8217;s portrait in 1989. Inspired by the nineteenth century painter [&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],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-e-facts","tag-alison-watt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}