{"id":1091,"date":"2025-05-22T06:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T06:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:43:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:43:29","slug":"shea-embrey-how-i-became-100-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1091","title":{"rendered":"Shea Embrey &#8211; How I became 100 artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot202025-05-2120222613.jpg\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"825\" data-original-width=\"1337\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhoJilbW2pzoJIEW4Zhbcq_nfeAgArMQ0mriihqkfr81nOGqP_SRSQXbyK6lpn9CUS8sp9_Nj6tYDzjJg-rShNwQluBFRCaooRRQRx523Fj6togarj3Er4ROZ94qkulyXnrD5NID0yBaxupdSlS7nB3_-wxMdZHTq9EnXnHvdYNBl4LvdsZ8cls3dugvMZ4\/w476-h293\/Screenshot%202025-05-21%20222613.jpg\" width=\"476\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Shea Embrey is a lover of contemporary art but often finds himself really frustrated by the contemporary art world. He seeks work that is appealing and accessible to a broad public, and that also demonstrates exquisite craftsmanship and technique.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke of different litmus tests that he has for art. One is based on whether or not he could communicate it to his Grandmother within 5 minutes. If he cannot, it is too obtuse, too esoteric and hasn&#8217;t been resolved enough to speak fluently. The second involves 3 H&#8217;s. Head, heart and hand. Head is fully realized concept. Heart is the passion and soul of a piece. And hand is how expertly it has been crafted.<\/p>\n<p>And so he&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/shea_hembrey_how_i_became_100_artists\">https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/shea_hembrey_how_i_became_100_artists<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shea Embrey is a lover of contemporary art but often finds himself really frustrated by the contemporary art world. He seeks work that is appealing and accessible to a broad public, and that also demonstrates exquisite craftsmanship and technique. He spoke of different litmus tests that he has for art. One is based on whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}