{"id":2916,"date":"2009-10-18T18:20:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T18:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2009-10-18T18:20:59","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T18:20:59","slug":"fine-art-frieze-art-and-landscape-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/fine-art-frieze-art-and-landscape-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine Art, Frieze Art and Landscape Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<object width=\"560\" height=\"340\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vogKYiLb7Vw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vogKYiLb7Vw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p>Thinking, sometimes, that landscape designers can turn to artists, much as we turn to\u00a0 engineers and\u00a0 ecologists, for specialist inspiration on projects, I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friezeartfair.com\/\">Frieze Art Fair<\/a> this afternoon. By way of a review: I found about 2% of the exhibits wonderful and 40% of them trash. Judging from the way other visitors were pacing up and down the aisles, I suspect this opinion is common. Fortunately, we visitors were in disagreement as to which works of art fell into which\u00a0 category. I came away with some design ideas but, better than that, I stopped on the way home to buy a box of Liquitex Heavy Body Acrylic Color. I did not bang into any celebs, unless you count the blue statue of Norman Foster. He can be seen on the video and on this <a href=\"http:\/\/londonist.com\/2009\/10\/review_frieze_art_fair_2009.php\">webpage<\/a>. I was very impressed by the high style in which most visitors were dressed &#8211; but instead of high style bikes outside there was a fleet of sinister Black Series 7 BMWs labelled &#8216;Frieze art 2009 VIP transport&#8217;. Trust me, life is better on a Brompton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking, sometimes, that landscape designers can turn to artists, much as we turn to\u00a0 engineers and\u00a0 ecologists, for specialist inspiration on projects, I went to the Frieze Art Fair this afternoon. By way of a review: I found about 2% of the exhibits wonderful and 40% of them trash. Judging from the way other visitors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}