{"id":3490,"date":"2015-07-29T21:40:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T01:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/?p=3490"},"modified":"2017-11-17T17:05:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T22:05:25","slug":"china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/china\/","title":{"rendered":"China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw a wonderful exhibit, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/listings\/2015\/china-through-the-looking-glass\" target=\"_blank\" > China, Through the Looking Glass&#8221;<\/a> at The Metropolitan Museum in NY. Displays made connections between the Western view of Chinese decorative culture and contemporary high fashion. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/china\/yellowBunny.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Dress inspired by Chinese Manchu Robe.\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/china\/yellowBunny.jpg\" height=400 width=300 alt=\"sketchbook drawings\" \/> <\/a><br \/>Dress inspired by Chinese Manchu Robe <\/p>\n<p>Spread out over three floors it was pattern after pattern after pattern. The exhibit was as much a piece of art as the fashions and the Chinese artifacts. Each gallery more wondrous than the next. Colors, ancient Chinese textiles and objects pared with current haute couture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/china\/combo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Designs reflecting influence of early Chinese artifacts like this bronze bell.\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/china\/combo.jpg\" height=410 width=325 alt=\"Contemporary ensamble and ancient bronze bell.\" \/> <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/china\/bambooMan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Inspired by 2000 year old Wuxia, Martial arts liturature.\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/china\/bambooMan.jpg\" height=410 width=308 alt=\"sketchbook drawings\" \/> <\/a><br \/>Style showing very early Chinese decorative elements, and on right From Wuxia, stories of martial arts,  over 2000 years old. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/china\/Plates.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Floral patterns onblue-and-white porcelain \" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/china\/Plates.jpg\" height=368 width=325 alt=\"blue-and-white porcelain\" \/> <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/china\/rose.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Flowere on silk shawl from the China trade.\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/china\/rose.jpg\" height=368 width=325 alt=\"sketchbook drawings\" \/> <\/a> <br \/> Decorative flowers every where &#8211; ancient, blue-and-white porcelain. The embroidered rose is from a shawl, representing the China Trade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/china\/shards.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bodice of dress made of blue-and-white porcelain shards.\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/china\/shards.jpg\" height=400 width=400 alt=\"Bodice of dress made of blue-and-white porcelain shards.\" \/> <\/a><br \/> Bodice of this dress and neck piece are literally made of blue-and-white porcelain shards. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw a wonderful exhibit, China, Through the Looking Glass&#8221; at The Metropolitan Museum in NY. Displays made connections between the Western view of Chinese decorative culture and contemporary high fashion. Dress inspired by Chinese Manchu Robe Spread out over three floors it was pattern after pattern after pattern. The exhibit was as much a piece&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/china\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440,47],"tags":[354,355],"class_list":["post-3490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-road-trips","tag-metropolitial-museum-of-art","tag-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3490"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3527,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions\/3527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}