{"id":4131,"date":"2013-01-01T18:43:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T23:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=4131"},"modified":"2013-01-10T10:09:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T15:09:08","slug":"2013-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2013\/01\/2013-begins.html","title":{"rendered":"<center>2013 Begins &#8230; Let It &#8216;ROT NOT&#8217;<\/center>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center>+++<\/center> <center>&#8220;For me all is uncertain at all times.&#8221;<\/center> <center><em>&#8212; Gerard Bellaart<\/em><\/center> <center>+++<\/center> I&#8217;m a sucker for Bellaart&#8217;s word-image artworks. &#8216;ROT NOT&#8217; is one in a series of more than 500 created between April and December of 2005. Some of the images are included in &#8216;Fragmentations,&#8217; a collection of Bellaart&#8217;s visual works published by Cold Turkey Press. Others, this one among them, are included in Cold Turkey Press&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gerardbellaart.com\/cloaca_maxima.html\">Cloaca Maxima<\/a> series. The actual sizes vary from about 19&#8243;\/26&#8243; to 28&#8243;\/39&#8243;.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gerardbellaart.com\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4139\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2013\/01\/2013-begins.html\/rot-not-gerard-bellaart\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ROT-NOT-Gerard-Bellaart-e1357080272962.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,672\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ROT NOT [Gerard Bellaart]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8216;ROT NOT&amp;#8217; by Gerard Bellaart&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ROT-NOT-Gerard-Bellaart-223x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ROT-NOT-Gerard-Bellaart-e1357080272962.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4139\" title=\"'ROT NOT' [2005] \u00a9 by Gerard Bellaart. In his etchings, drawings, paintings, monotypes, Gerard Bellaart employs a variety of techniques &amp; materials including oil paint, tempera, charcoal, ink. Supports include handmade paper, canvas &amp; panel.\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ROT-NOT-Gerard-Bellaart-e1357080272962.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"672\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a sucker for Bellaart&#8217;s word-image artworks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4139,"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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ROT-NOT-Gerard-Bellaart-e1357080272962.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-14D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}