{"id":1118,"date":"2016-11-17T23:01:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T06:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=1118"},"modified":"2016-12-06T16:12:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T23:12:39","slug":"richards-the-pianist","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/?portfolio=richards-the-pianist","title":{"rendered":"Richards &#8211; The Pianist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_two_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><p><div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img class='wp-image-1119 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1119 avia_image' src='https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Richards-The-Pianist.png' alt='' title='richards-the-pianist' height=\"653\" width=\"959\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Ceri Richards (1903-1971), The Pianist (1944)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_two_fifth  el_before_av_two_fifth  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><p><div  class='avia-video avia-video-16-9   av-lazyload-immediate  av-lazyload-video-embed  '   itemprop=\"video\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"  data-original_url='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O3C5t9dNW7I' ><script type='text\/html' class='av-video-tmpl'><div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O3C5t9dNW7I?feature=oembed&autoplay=0&loop=0&controls=1&mute=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/script><div class='av-click-to-play-overlay'><div class=\"avia_playpause_icon\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Ceri Richards&#8217; Daughter Talks About Her Father<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As soon as he could afford it, he bought a piano, and had pianos all his life and played every day, and played very very well. This features in different ways in such a lot of his works.&#8221; &#8211; Rhiannon Gooding, daughter of Ceri Richards<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_two_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_two_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p><em>Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lines 1-8 from <em>Piano<\/em> by D.H. Lawrence 1918<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_two_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_two_fifth  el_before_av_one_third  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Born into a highly cultured, working-class family, Ceri Richards and his siblings were all taught to play the piano. The exposure to the arts, particularly to music, built a inclination towards what would be a major source of inspiration and stimulus to Richards&#8217; painting. Throughout many periods of his life, Richards returned to the theme of music. In his early pictures, the music room and the piano \u00a0are the focus of the artworks. However, in his latter works, the images become less representational, with light and color becoming important elements of the works. The whiteness of the woman and piano in the picture that contrast the bright red room that forms the background not only distinct the piano and the room from one another, but also shines the spotlight on the two.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_two_fifth  el_before_av_one_half  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><p><div  class='avia-video avia-video-16-9   av-lazyload-immediate  av-lazyload-video-embed  '   itemprop=\"video\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"  data-original_url='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bK1R4ZSjteQ' ><script type='text\/html' class='av-video-tmpl'><div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe width=\"1333\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bK1R4ZSjteQ?feature=oembed&autoplay=0&loop=0&controls=1&mute=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/script><div class='av-click-to-play-overlay'><div class=\"avia_playpause_icon\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Michelangeli plays Debussy&#8217;s &#8220;Poissons d&#8217;or,&#8221; 1962 &#8212; Debussy&#8217;s music acted as one of Richards&#8217; many inspirations<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_half  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-13  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_two_third  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Colours are a keyboard, the artist is the hand that plays on them&#8230; A painter who finds no satisfaction in representation, but who wants to express his internal life, and who envies the ease with which it can be done by music, applies the means of music to his own art. And from this results the modern desire for rhythm in painting, for mathematic abstract construction, for repeated notes of colour, for setting colour in motion.<\/em><\/span>&#8221; &#8211;<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wassily Kandinsky, 1911<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-15  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Categories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=1216\">Impressionism<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=1242\">Urbanism and Industrialization<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":1119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[67,57,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/1118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/1118\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_entries&post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}