{"id":9333,"date":"2011-08-19T00:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=9333"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:18:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:18:46","slug":"life-imitating-art-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=9333","title":{"rendered":"Life Imitating Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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This is day 5 in my photo a day challenge and I just happened to have picked this jug of Black-Eyed Susans. There was something about the jug that reminded me of the sunflower pictures of Van Gogh.  <\/p>\n

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\nThe picture is actually a cross between a Van Gogh and a Picasso – OK, I’m giving myself a lot of credit these days – anyway, here is the Van Gogh and the Picasso.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nThe other Picasso is lighter has more of the “feel” of my Susans – anyway I think that my picture is a good example of life imitating Art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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I would also like to add a reference that I made to a group in Britain that take a work of art each year and translate it into knitting.<\/p>\n

Here’s the link to my blog about The Materialists<\/a> They recently worked Van Goghs “Sunflowers” in knitted fabric et al – Now is this life imitating art – imitating life?<\/p>\n

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