{"id":1308,"date":"2017-07-06T00:17:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T16:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2017-07-06T00:17:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T16:17:57","slug":"wikipedia-article-of-the-day-for-july-5-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/2017\/07\/06\/wikipedia-article-of-the-day-for-july-5-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia article of the day for July 5, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikipedia article of the day for July 5, 2017 is <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/2fp734r\">Head VI<\/a>.<br \/>\nHead VI is a 1949 painting by the Irish-born, English figurative artist Francis Bacon. It is the last of six panels making up his &#8220;1949 Head&#8221; series, which are largely modeled on Diego Vel\u00e1zquez&#8217;s Portrait of Innocent X. Applying forceful, expressive brush strokes, Bacon placed the figure within a draped glass cage. The intended effect is of a man trapped and suffocated by his surroundings, screaming into an airless void. Head VI was the first of Bacon&#8217;s paintings to reference Vel\u00e1zquez, whose portrait of Pope Innocent X haunted Bacon and inspired his series of over 45 &#8220;screaming popes&#8221;. Head VI contains many figurations that were to reappear throughout his career; the geometric cages are present as late as the 1985\u201386 Study for a Self-Portrait\u2014Triptych. In 1949 Bacon was a highly controversial artist, best known for his 1944 Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, and as the enfant terrible of British art. The curator Lawrence Gowing wrote that the &#8220;shock of the picture, when it was seen with a whole series of heads\u00a0&#8230; was indescribable. It was everything unpardonable.&#8221; Today the panel is considered among Bacon&#8217;s finest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikipedia article of the day for July 5, 2017 is Head VI. Head VI is a 1949 painting by the Irish-born, English figurative artist Francis Bacon. It is the last of six panels making up his &#8220;1949 Head&#8221; series, which are largely modeled on Diego Vel\u00e1zquez&#8217;s Portrait of Innocent X. Applying forceful, expressive brush [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[19,367,18],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wikipedia","tag-article-of-the-day","tag-head-vi","tag-wikipedia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}