{"id":780,"date":"2012-02-17T20:44:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T18:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/?p=780"},"modified":"2012-03-05T00:31:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T22:31:36","slug":"la-sfida-della-semplicita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/2012\/02\/17\/la-sfida-della-semplicita\/","title":{"rendered":"La Sfida della Semplicita&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight Giulia and I were admiring and discussing what I think is the nearly completed first great painting forged in the new studio. \u00a0I said to her:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s the unexpected simplicity in this painting that I like so much\u2014it&#8217;s<em> the most from the least\u2014<\/em>made of simple improvisations I could have never planned. \u00a0That&#8217;s the trick and the difficulty, finding the simplicity while maintaining a sense of spontaneity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Low and behold, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/02\/16\/apple-ceo-tim-cook-were-simpletons_n_1283150.html\" target=\"_blank\">reading tonight&#8217;s news on the web<\/a>, I stumble upon something Steve Jobs said in an interview from 1998:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That&#8217;s been one of my mantras &#8212; focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it&#8217;s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>D&#8217;accordo!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight Giulia and I were admiring and discussing what I think is the nearly completed first great painting forged in the new studio. \u00a0I said to her: It&#8217;s the unexpected simplicity in this painting that I like so much\u2014it&#8217;s the most from the least\u2014made of simple improvisations I could have never planned. \u00a0That&#8217;s the trick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-studio","category-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}