{"id":2884,"date":"2012-08-21T09:14:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T07:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2012-08-21T09:14:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T07:14:53","slug":"phil-hansen-paints-30-pictures-on-his-chest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/phil-hansen-paints-30-pictures-on-his-chest\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Hansen Paints 30 Pictures on his Chest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Hansen is an artist who creates interesting art videos for Youtube. He has made portraits out of pine cones, <a href=\"http:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/speed-painting-bruce-lee-with-kung-fu-moves\/#\" target=\"_blank\">painted a portrait of Bruce Lee with \u00a0kung fu moves<\/a> and tattooed a banana. Hansen challenges our preconceived ideas of art while pushing the boundaries of his own creativity.<\/p>\n<p>In this art video, Phil Hansen honors 30 people who have influenced his life by painting symbolic pictures on his chest and making a video out of the art process. For some of these people, Hansen paints a portrait of their face, but for others, he paints a picture that symbolizes who they are or how they have influenced him. The time lapse video shows the artist painting over each picture in order to create a blank canvas for the next painting. Layer upon layer of paint covers his chest in a symbolic act that represents the layers of memory that a person collects over time. The artist had to stand in the same place for several hours to create this video, painting himself while looking in a mirror, behind the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Hansen sells posters of his art online through his <a href=\"http:\/\/store.philinthecircle.com\/posters.html\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>, and displays his art videos through his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Philinthecircle\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Hansen is an artist who creates interesting art videos for Youtube. He has made portraits out of pine cones, painted a portrait of Bruce Lee with \u00a0kung fu moves and tattooed a banana. Hansen challenges our preconceived ideas of art while pushing the boundaries of his own creativity. In this art video, Phil Hansen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[55,93,373,388,438,526,545,792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}