{"id":2233,"date":"2018-10-24T00:14:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T00:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/?p=2233"},"modified":"2018-10-24T00:14:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T00:14:11","slug":"wikipedia-article-of-the-day-for-october-24-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/2018\/10\/24\/wikipedia-article-of-the-day-for-october-24-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia article of the day for October 24, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikipedia article of the day for October 24, 2018 is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fragment_of_a_Crucifixion\">Fragment of a Crucifixion<\/a>.<br \/>\nFragment of a Crucifixion is a 1950 painting by the Irish-born figurative painter Francis Bacon (portrait shown). Although its title has religious connotations, it reflects Bacon&#8217;s nihilistic view of the human condition; as an atheist he did not believe in either divine intervention or an afterlife. It shows two animals engaged in an existential struggle, with an upper figure, which may be a dog or a cat, crouching over a chimera and at the point of kill. The predator stoops on the horizontal beam of a T-shaped structure, which may signify Christ&#8217;s cross. The chimera&#8217;s despair forms the centrepiece of the work, and in its agony it can be compared to Bacon&#8217;s later works focusing on the motif of an open mouth. The work contains thinly sketched passers-by, who seem oblivious to the central drama. He abandoned the theme of the crucifixion for the following 12 years, returning to it in the equally bleak triptych Three Studies for a Crucifixion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikipedia article of the day for October 24, 2018 is Fragment of a Crucifixion. Fragment of a Crucifixion is a 1950 painting by the Irish-born figurative painter Francis Bacon (portrait shown). Although its title has religious connotations, it reflects Bacon&#8217;s nihilistic view of the human condition; as an atheist he did not believe in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[32,414,31],"class_list":["post-2233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wikipedia","tag-article-of-the-day","tag-fragment-of-a-crucifixion","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}