{"id":7581,"date":"2016-06-19T18:04:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T01:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7581"},"modified":"2016-07-01T18:06:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T01:06:41","slug":"a-visual-nod-to-the-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/19\/a-visual-nod-to-the-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"A Visual Nod To The Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/06\/19\/american-gothic-goes-arty-with-a-visual-nod-to-masters\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The New York Post<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>\u2018American Gothic\u2019 goes arty with a visual nod to\u00a0masters<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a class=\"robert-rorke\" href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/author\/robert-rorke\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Rorke<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/tv_8things_gothic1a.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018American Gothic\u2019 goes arty with a visual nod to\u00a0masters\" width=\"480\" \/><em>Virginia Madsen (above) strikes a pose similar to Whistler&#8217;s mother (below).<span class=\"credit\">Photo: Christos Kalohoridis\/CBS<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>One doesn\u2019t expect to see great American works of art referenced in a new television series. But Corinne Brinkerhoff, executive producer of \u201cAmerican Gothic,\u201d is determined to change that.<\/p>\n<p>Her new show, which takes its title from the painting by Grant Wood, is about a wealthy Boston family trying to cover up a scandal when police suspect one of its members may be the \u201cSilver Bells Killer.\u201d Each of the 13 episodes is named after a famous painting.<\/p>\n<p>The titles are well chosen, as Brinkerhoff and her team of eight writers have made the paintings \u201corganically part of the episode.\u201d For example, Wednesday\u2019s premiere is called \u201cArrangement in Grey and Black\u201d (more commonly known as \u201cWhistler\u2019s Mother\u201d), and based on the 1871 painting by James McNeill Whistler. In the final scene actress Virginia Madsen, who plays devious matriarch Madeline Hawthorne, is posed, with some modifications, as the figure in the painting: seated and seen in profile, against a gray backdrop with one framed work of art on the wall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe matched some of our favorite paintings to what is going to happen in each episode,\u201d says Brinkerhoff (\u201cThe Good Wife\u201d), who spoke to The Post about how some of the renowned canvases will be captured this season.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/06\/19\/american-gothic-goes-arty-with-a-visual-nod-to-masters\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYP<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Post \u2018American Gothic\u2019 goes arty with a visual nod to\u00a0masters By\u00a0Robert Rorke Virginia Madsen (above) strikes a pose similar to Whistler&#8217;s mother (below).Photo: Christos Kalohoridis\/CBS One doesn\u2019t expect to see great American works of art referenced in a new television series. But Corinne Brinkerhoff, executive producer of \u201cAmerican Gothic,\u201d is determined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}