{"id":5210,"date":"2018-02-10T09:29:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T17:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/winifredsgallery.com\/?p=5210"},"modified":"2021-04-18T16:12:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T23:12:07","slug":"portrait-of-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winifredsgallery.com\/?p=5210","title":{"rendered":"Portrait of Despair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Portrait of Despair<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">12 x16 &nbsp;Oil painting Portrait onTextured Gessoed Panel<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5227\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/winifredsgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/despair-210-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5227\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5227\" src=\"https:\/\/winifredsgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/despair-210-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/winifredsgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/despair-210-3.jpg 440w, https:\/\/winifredsgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/despair-210-3-300x393.jpg 300w, https:\/\/winifredsgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/despair-210-3-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portrait of a Woman in Despair &#8211; 12&#215;16 Oil Painting by Winifred Whitfield<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s been a tough year of hurricanes, wild fires, flooding, mass murder, racial and other interest group violence and political hostility. Despair, hopelessness, loss seem but a heartbeat away and often central to the fabric of our lives.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I painted this portrait depicting anguish and despair because I wanted to document this emotion. On&nbsp;some level,&nbsp;&nbsp;at one time or another, to one extent or another, we have all known loss, agony, distress, grief, heartbreak, anxiety, worry, discouragement, and or despondency. I see such stories posted on Facebook and in the news &#8211; now it seems all the time. &nbsp;And &#8211; because we are so interconnected, there is no escaping from the shared pain. The specific reasons for this emotion in the photo are not important and will not be discussed.&nbsp; However, I think it might be of value to take a moment to connect with your particular sadness through this&nbsp; image, and then breathe back into your strength and courage to move forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portrait of Despair 12 x16 &nbsp;Oil painting Portrait onTextured Gessoed Panel It\u2019s been a tough year of hurricanes, wild fires, flooding, mass murder, racial and other interest group violence and political hostility. Despair, hopelessness, loss seem but a heartbeat away &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/winifredsgallery.com\/?p=5210\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[307],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traditional-oil-painting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"large-feature":false,"small-feature":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Winifred Whitfield","author_link":"https:\/\/winifredsgallery.com\/?author=2"},"uagb_comment_info":2,"uagb_excerpt":"Portrait of Despair 12 x16 &nbsp;Oil painting Portrait onTextured Gessoed Panel It\u2019s been a tough year of hurricanes, wild fires, flooding, mass murder, racial and other interest group violence and political hostility. 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