{"id":1107,"date":"2019-09-24T14:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2019-09-26T06:22:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T06:22:33","slug":"myrons-boxer-oil-at-12-x-16-in-on-22-x-15-in-bfk-rives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/24\/myrons-boxer-oil-at-12-x-16-in-on-22-x-15-in-bfk-rives\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxer at Rest &#8211; Oil at 12 x 16 in. on 22 x 15 in. BFK Rives."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> <strong>Boxer &#8211; Oil at 12 x 16 in. on 22 x 15 in. BFK Rives.<\/strong> <br><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Discovered near the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baths_of_Constantine_(Rome)\">Baths of Constantine<\/a> in 1885 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boxer_at_Rest\"><em>Boxer at Rest<\/em><\/a>, better known as&nbsp; \u2018The Boxer\u2019, asked scholars to re-exam long held ideas. Classical sculpture had previously been bound by exceptionalism. <em>Boxer at Rest, <\/em>in contrast, portrayed a broken old man. Bruised and battered he was by no means perfect. Much more expressive than <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hellenistic_period\">hellenistic<\/a> sculptures previously unearthed.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s become an icon. As is the sport it represents. A popular event during the hellenistic era boxing matches are mentioned as far back as the<em> <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iliad\"><em>Iliad<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em> Fights that fixated the public and became a favorite past time among the common men.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sculpture is very \u2018pop\u2019. This fauvist recreation, completed in a few hours, merely attempts to pay homage and further distinguish a timeless work of art.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Sources<\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/blogs\/now-at-the-met\/features\/2013\/the-boxer\">https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/blogs\/now-at-the-met\/features\/2013\/the-boxer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ancient_Greek_boxing\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ancient_Greek_boxing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boxer &#8211; Oil at 12 x 16 in. on 22 x 15 in. BFK Rives. Discovered near the Baths of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[36,162],"tags":[19,18,954,945,956,943,953],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bfk-rives","category-oil","tag-carty-sewill","tag-cartysewill","tag-classicism","tag-fauvist","tag-myron","tag-oilpainting","tag-oilpaintingart","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/0005.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1213,"href":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/1213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartysewill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}