{"id":861,"date":"2011-04-13T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/04\/the-sitar-and-abstract-art.html"},"modified":"2011-04-13T15:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T22:42:00","slug":"the-sitar-and-abstract-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/04\/the-sitar-and-abstract-art.html","title":{"rendered":"The Sitar and Abstract Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>RECENTLY I spoke to Anoushka Shankar, daughter of sitar legend Ravi Shankar, about her influences across the artistic genres. Some of her answers did not surprise me &#8212; she mentioned her father, saying, \u00a0<\/span><span><span>\u00a0&#8220;<\/span><\/span><span><span>Having taught me from my very first day playing the sitar, he&#8217;s shaped my technique, style and sound.&#8221; Others, like abstract painter Mark Rothko, were less obvious: She talked about the connection between color and spirit.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-rnaJYGSfIj0\/TaZijUryLWI\/AAAAAAAABGQ\/_MlkIrHTUb8\/s1600\/Anoushka_Shankar.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"213\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-rnaJYGSfIj0\/TaZijUryLWI\/AAAAAAAABGQ\/_MlkIrHTUb8\/s320\/Anoushka_Shankar.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><span>Anoushka is part of a The Disney Hall concert in honor of her father&#8217;s 90th birthday; previously scheduled for next week, it has been <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2011\/04\/ravi-shankar-withdraws-from-disney-hall-concert-again.html\">postponed<\/a> to September.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2011\/04\/influences-sitar-player-and-daughter-anoushka-shankar.html\">HERE<\/a> is my piece on the younger Shankar &#8212; half-sister to Norah Jones, by the way &#8212; in today&#8217;s LA Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RECENTLY I spoke to Anoushka Shankar, daughter of sitar legend Ravi Shankar, about her influences across the artistic genres. Some of her answers did not surprise me &#8212; she mentioned her father, saying, \u00a0\u00a0&#8220;Having taught me from my very first day playing the sitar, he&#8217;s shaped my technique, style and sound.&#8221; Others, like abstract painter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,180,130],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-classical-music","7":"category-india","8":"category-la-philharmonic","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}