{"id":7683,"date":"2018-12-03T21:53:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T04:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/how-the-myth-of-the-hedonistic-artist-lost-its\/"},"modified":"2018-12-08T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T00:32:00","slug":"how-the-myth-of-the-hedonistic-artist-lost-its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/how-the-myth-of-the-hedonistic-artist-lost-its\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Myth of the Hedonistic Artist Lost Its Allure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/28\/t-magazine\/artists-abstinence-asceticism.html'>How the Myth of the Hedonistic Artist Lost Its Allure<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/belacqui-pro-quo.tumblr.com\/post\/180761539240\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">belacqui-pro-quo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For the artist, though, asceticism isn\u2019t a fad or a fashion or a mindful cleanse \u2014 a thumb of turmeric and a pinch of cayenne \u2014 prudently chosen. It is a regimen that evolves out of the need to do something unreasonable that an artist can\u2019t be reasoned out of doing: work, demanded by no one but the self that makes it, because making is what the artist needs and knows.<\/p>\n<p>Asceticism as a word also arose in ancient Greece, albeit in different form. The root of the word is the Greek askein, which means \u201cto exercise,\u201d as an athlete would when training for an event, a word that grows into the Greek word asketes, which means \u201ca monk or hermit,\u201d the sort of person who would either withdraw from the world or who, because of the rigors of endless training, might well seem to. The old saw about boxers, that they wouldn\u2019t expend a certain kind of energy before a bout \u2014 sexual energy, which would need to be hoarded if the fighter wanted to be at peak strength \u2014 aligns nicely with this notion, one in which the ascetic isn\u2019t starving herself so much as harnessing her powers, because power is a finite thing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>we\u2019ll see how long this one lasts. maybe hedonism will be flagged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the Myth of the Hedonistic Artist Lost Its Allure belacqui-pro-quo: For the artist, though, asceticism isn\u2019t a fad or a fashion or a mindful cleanse \u2014 a thumb of turmeric and a pinch of cayenne \u2014 prudently chosen. It is a regimen that evolves out of the need to do something unreasonable that an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_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":[],"tags":[2004,2056],"class_list":["post-7683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","tag-teaching-tumblr","tag-tumblr-exodus","post_format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-1ZV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52287,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683\/revisions\/52287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}