{"id":1445,"date":"2010-04-12T07:46:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T11:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2015-12-27T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T06:00:09","slug":"art-in-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2010\/04\/art-in-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Art in Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always inspired by artists who brave the crowds to create their artwork. It&#8217;s something that I do not like to do, but this &#8220;plein air,&#8221; landscape artist, <a title=\"Among Cherry Blossoms, article by Michael E. Ruane\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/04\/06\/AR2010040601543.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michela Mansuino, featured last week in the Washington Post<\/a>, has managed to not only control her experience with multitudes of onlookers but capture the magic of the cherry blossoms in her paintings. She&#8217;s been painting at the same spot for four years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/04\/michela_mansuino_wp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1446\" title=\"Michela Mansuino. Photo by Melina Mara, via Washington Post\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/04\/michela_mansuino_wp.jpg\" alt=\"Michela Mansuino. Photo by Melina Mara, via Washington Post\" width=\"499\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/michela_mansuino_wp.jpg 582w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/michela_mansuino_wp-299x216.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The <a title=\"Previous posts on Cherry Blossoms\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?s=cherry+blossom\" target=\"_blank\">cherry blossoms<\/a> are nearly gone now, but the moment they existed is immortalized in this painting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s a photo, besides <a title=\"Previous post with cherry blossom photos\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=1411\" target=\"_blank\">the last post<\/a>, that I took recently of the blossoms on my neighbor&#8217;s cherry laurel tree &#8212; just as beautiful as the cherry blossoms, I thought. They are becoming some new inspirational <a title=\"Inspirational Florals post on casartblog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.casartcoverings.com\/casartblog\/archives\/2887\" target=\"_blank\">designs for Casart coverings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/04\/cherrylaurel_artiseverywhere_blog.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1447\" title=\"cherrylaurel_artiseverywhere_blog. Photo \u00a9 by C. Ashley Spencer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/04\/cherrylaurel_artiseverywhere_blog.jpg\" alt=\"cherrylaurel_artiseverywhere_blog. Photo \u00a9 by C. 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The cherry blossoms are nearly gone now, but the moment they existed is immortalized in this painting. Here&#8217;s a photo, besides the last post, that I took recently of the blossoms on my neighbor&#8217;s cherry laurel tree &#8212; just as beautiful as the cherry blossoms, I thought. They are becoming some new inspirational designs for Casart coverings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,420,92,53,64,82],"tags":[1251,1254,1253,1252],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists","category-casartcoverings-com","category-celebrations-and-all-including-sad-events","category-creative-process","category-nature","category-photography","tag-cherry-blossom","tag-cherry-laurel","tag-landscape","tag-plein-air-artist"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Art in Bloom<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Art in Bloom on Art Is Everywhere.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2010\/04\/art-in-bloom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Art in Bloom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Art in Bloom on Art Is Everywhere.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2010\/04\/art-in-bloom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ArtIsEverywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-04-12T11:46:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-12-27T06:00:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/04\/michela_mansuino_wp.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/art-in-bloom\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/art-in-bloom\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"casart\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"headline\":\"Art in Bloom\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-04-12T11:46:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-12-27T06:00:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/art-in-bloom\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":135,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/art-in-bloom\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/michela_mansuino_wp.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"cherry blossom\",\"cherry laurel\",\"landscape\",\"plein air artist\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Artists\",\"Casart\u00ae Coverings\",\"Celebrations &amp; 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