{"id":37563,"date":"2006-07-10T06:41:55","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T12:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=37563"},"modified":"2020-05-09T21:54:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T03:54:14","slug":"cedar-citys-brian-hoover-on-the-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/cedar-citys-brian-hoover-on-the-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedar City&#8217;s Brian Hoover On the Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/hoover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-53967\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/hoover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a>Cedar City artist and professor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianhoover.com\/\">Brian Hoover<\/a>\u00a0on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>1) What are you reading lately?<br \/>\n<em>Nothing too heady. I am currently re-reading one of my favorite books, \u201cLittle Big,\u201d by John Crowley. For me, it&#8217;s a magical book full of strange, wonderful, often disturbing and inspiring imagery. It&#8217;s a read for those with an escapist mentality like myself. The book is also delightfully written. It&#8217;s full of many very loooong descriptive sentences that read like poetry and require a re-reading just for the fun of it<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>2) What hangs above your mantel?<em><br \/>\nBecause my walls serve as temporary storage for my own work &#8230;as things are constantly coming and going&#8230; work is always being moved from one room to another. Currently, however, I have a Wayne Kimball lithograph and one of Susan Harris&#8217; lidded funerary tripods (with armadillos) as centerpieces in the living room.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>3) What artist, living or dead, would you choose to paint, sculpt or photograph your portrait?<em><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s a tough one. My first impulse would be to choose one of my 19<sup>th<\/sup>&#8211; century Symbolist heroes or a contemporary artist like Julie Heffernan, just for the sheer surprise of what they would come up with. But for more self-serving reasons I&#8217;d have to choose Adolph-William Bouguereau. In my opinion, there is no one else before or after him that can seamlessly transform paint into living flesh so well. I would choose him just to watch him paint.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cedar City artist and professor\u00a0Brian Hoover\u00a0on the spot. 1) What are you reading lately? Nothing too heady. I am currently re-reading one of my favorite books, \u201cLittle Big,\u201d by John Crowley. For me, it&#8217;s a magical book full of strange, wonderful, often disturbing and inspiring imagery. It&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1575,"featured_media":53967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[505],"class_list":["post-37563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on_the_spot","category-visual_arts","tag-brian-hoover"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-07 20:52:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53968,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37563\/revisions\/53968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}