{"id":144,"date":"2016-07-20T23:01:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T03:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmartistcreative.com\/30sec-film-artists\/?p=144"},"modified":"2017-01-11T21:19:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T02:19:40","slug":"susan-avishai-there-was-a-previous-life-to-all-this-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmartistcreative.com\/30sec-film-artists\/2016\/07\/20\/susan-avishai-there-was-a-previous-life-to-all-this-fabric\/","title":{"rendered":"30sec film artists Vol.40 &#8211; Susan Avishai"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>&#8220;There was a previous life to all this fabric&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BATPo5ZUndA?list=PLSJe0hpks0BizocImCf9x_1bzxMlk310q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<span id=\"artistName\">Susan Avishai :<\/span> My creative life began the night my father&#8217;s ballpoint pen dropped from his pocket as he bent over to tuck me in. I was two years old, the sheet my canvas, and the experience heady. Growing up in Montreal in the 1950\u2019s, I had the great good fortune to spend Saturday mornings making art with Arthur Lismer at the Musee des Beaux Arts.  Few teachers taught joy as he did.  At eighteen I was footloose at the Academie Julien in Paris, drawing the nude model while sitting on the same benches once warmed by the back-ends of Gauguin and Rodin, deciding that yes, I was inexorably hooked.  Nothing seemed to compare with the magic and power of making life appear on a sheet of paper.<br \/>\n<cite><a href=\"http:\/\/susanavishai.net\/about-me\/bio\/\" target=\"_blank\">susanavishai.net<\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n<ul class=\"artist-social\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/savishai\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"susan facebook\"><i class=\"fa fa-facebook-square\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>360 Art Experience &#8211; Inside Susan Avishai&#8217;s Studio and Her Art Works by FILMARTIST <\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SfQs45ChwAs?list=PLSJe0hpks0BjVJgQqKs6QIXoOlRWA6ixe\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There was a previous life to all this fabric&#8221; Susan Avishai : My creative life began the night my father&#8217;s ballpoint pen dropped from his pocket as he bent over to tuck me in. I was two years old, the sheet my canvas, and the experience heady. Growing up in Montreal in the 1950\u2019s, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,3,5,24,8],"tags":[41,93,94,38,51],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmartistcreative.com\/30sec-film-artists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmartistcreative.com\/30sec-film-artists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmartistcreative.com\/30sec-film-artists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmartistcreative.com\/30sec-film-artists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmartistcreative.com\/30sec-film-artists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/filmartistcreative.com\/30sec-film-artists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/filmartistcreative.com\/30sec-film-artists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmartistcreative.com\/30sec-film-artists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmartistcreative.com\/30sec-film-artists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmartistcreative.com\/30sec-film-artists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmartistcreative.com\/30sec-film-artists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}