{"id":1555,"date":"2019-10-11T07:25:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2019-10-22T07:27:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T13:27:13","slug":"ssc-art-club-visits-impressionist-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/ssc-art-club-visits-impressionist-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"SSC Art Club Visits Impressionist Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Art Club students from Seminole State College recently visited the Oklahoma City Museum of Art to get a first-hand glimpse of Impressionist artwork from the nineteenth century. The exhibit, Van Gogh, Monet, Degas, <\/em>was on loan from the Mellon Collection of French art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The Mellon family became interested in collecting smaller pieces of French Art in the 1940s. <\/p>\n\n\n

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SSC Art Club students and sponsors pose for a photo at the entrance of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Pictured (l-r) back row: Adjunct Professor Lynette Atchley, Lane Jones, Tema Yargee, Assistant Professor of Art Angela Church, Kristen Ivey, Jessica Baker, Janell Streater, Tristen Wood; front row: Grady Atchley, Kourtney Lester and Aiden Pepe<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPaul Mellon was drawn to\nsporting images such as horse races but many of his pieces include people,\nwater, flowers and other images from the French countryside,\u201d Assistant\nProfessor of Art Angela Church said. \u201cHis idea when collecting art was to not\nfind art made by famous artists for purchase, but to find art that moved him,\nand then do research on the artist later.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art Club students visited\nthe permanent collection of the museum as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Art Club students from Seminole State College recently visited the Oklahoma City Museum of Art to get a first-hand glimpse of Impressionist artwork from the nineteenth century. The exhibit, Van Gogh, Monet, Degas, was on loan from the Mellon Collection of French art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The Mellon family became interested … Continue reading SSC Art Club Visits Impressionist Exhibit<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-http-www-sscok-edu-media-academics","tag-october-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}