{"id":1678,"date":"2011-01-19T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hip97.com\/wp\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2012-10-31T23:44:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T15:44:09","slug":"renee-nault-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2011\/01\/19\/renee-nault-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Renee Nault"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/3364.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"Renee Nault\" alt=\"Renee Nault\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/3365.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"Renee Nault\" alt=\"Renee Nault\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/3366.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"Renee Nault\" alt=\"Renee Nault\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reneenault.com\">Renee Nault&#8217;s<\/a> work is an interesting mix of Japanese inspired imagery (she credits ukiyo-e paintings for this; see bottom) and modern watercolor renderings that produces emotionally provoking imagery. Atmospheric in nature, Renee manages to infuse her subjects with movement and grace &#8212; as seen via her character renderings that seem to be inspired by manga.<\/p>\n<p>I love how she has taken the traditional concept of ukiyo-e and translated it into something refreshing and contemporary. <\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ukiyo-e\">Wikipedia:<\/a><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Usually the word ukiyo is literally translated as &#8220;floating world&#8221; in English, referring to a conception of an evanescent world, impermanent, fleeting beauty and a realm of entertainments (kabuki, courtesans, geisha) divorced from the responsibilities of the mundane, everyday world; &#8220;pictures of the floating world&#8221;, i.e. ukiyo-e, are considered a genre unto themselves.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She is a frequent illustrator for The Los Angeles Times, and you can purchase her prints over in her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/reneenault\">Etsy shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"Renee Nault\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2011\/01\/19\/renee-nault-2\/\" aria-label=\"More on Renee Nault\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31005,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/31005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}