{"id":616,"date":"2016-08-27T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T17:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-optics-wp.pantheonsite.io\/falco\/?page_id=616"},"modified":"2016-08-27T10:32:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T17:32:01","slug":"composition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/falco\/art-optics\/sociological-questions\/composition\/","title":{"rendered":"Composition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-142 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/falco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2016\/08\/eyckulttom.jpg\" alt=\"eyckulttom\" width=\"480\" height=\"381\" data-id=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/falco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2016\/08\/eyckulttom.jpg 480w, https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/falco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2016\/08\/eyckulttom-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although the same basic elements\u2014two people, complex chandelier, convex mirror, and small objects on the floor\u2014are in the painting as in the photograph I took during a motorcycle ride in Ireland with two friends (Ultan Guilfoyle and Tom Hayes), there is no mistaking the fact that van Eyck&#8217;s composition and use of color are more pleasing to the eye. The small autofocus camera I had with me was a far more sophisticated optical device than anything van Eyck had, but he produced a timeless image while I produced a snapshot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/falco\/art-optics\/sociological-questions\/\">&lt;&lt; Back to Optics Art\u00a0Sociological Questions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the same basic elements\u2014two people, complex chandelier, convex mirror, and small objects on the floor\u2014are in the painting as in the photograph I took during a motorcycle ride in Ireland with two friends (Ultan Guilfoyle and Tom Hayes), there is no mistaking the fact that van Eyck&#8217;s composition and use of color are more pleasing to the eye. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":535,"parent":548,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-616","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/falco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/falco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/falco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/falco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/falco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/falco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/falco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616\/revisions\/618"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/falco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/falco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/falco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}