{"id":47,"date":"2010-03-13T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2010\/03\/13\/bigging-up-titians-bacchus-and-ariadne\/"},"modified":"2010-03-13T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T18:04:00","slug":"bigging-up-titians-bacchus-and-ariadne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Bigging Up Titian&#8217;s \u2018Bacchus and Ariadne\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10031301.jpg\" \/><br \/>This is the third year that the Arts Festival has featured a Bigging Up a Famous Painting . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mynall.co.uk\/\">Alan Mynall<\/a> holds up his 1\/25th of the total picture.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10031306.jpg\" \/><br \/><span>25 artists each painted a 2ft x 2ft portion of Titian&#8217;s Bacchus and Ariadne in just 6 hours. At 4:00 the canvases were collated to create a giant version of the original. <\/span><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10031305.jpg\" \/><br \/>Then came the moment of truth as the large picture was turned to face the audience.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10031303.jpg\" \/><br \/>Here are the artists with their picture.<\/p>\n<p>The event was sponsored by Schlumberger and Price&#8217;s Stationers, and the finished canvasses will be on display at the Guildhall over the next two weeks &#8211; during the arts festival.<\/p>\n<p>Lots more is going on which can be seen at <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170918135406\/http:\/\/abingdonartsfestival.org.uk\/\">Abingdon Arts Festival<\/a>. For example<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10031307.jpg\" \/><br \/>Kevin Tomlinson has taken his show <span>to Canada, America, Norway, New Zealand, Holland and Hawaii. The show explores all those times in life when we are \u201con the edge\u201d<\/span>. On 26th March he will be Bigging it up in his home town, Abingdon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third year that the Arts Festival has featured a Bigging Up a Famous Painting . Alan Mynall holds up his 1\/25th of the total picture.25 artists each painted a 2ft x 2ft portion of Titian&#8217;s Bacchus and Ariadne in just 6 hours. At 4:00 the canvases were collated to create a giant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}