{"id":15446,"date":"2025-02-24T20:15:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/?p=15446"},"modified":"2025-02-24T20:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:15:19","slug":"in-memory-of-gloria-li-mir-vers-le-ciel-to-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/?p=15446","title":{"rendered":"In memory of Gloria Li Mir: \u201cVers le ciel\u201d (To the sky)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gloria Li Mir, a wonderful artist and friend, left this world on February the 15th 2025. To recall her and her oeuvre, we republish our very first Artwork of the Month from February 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/vers_le_ciel.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-88 size-medium\" title=\"Gloria Li Mir: Vers le ciel (To the sky), 1981\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/vers_le_ciel-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/vers_le_ciel-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/vers_le_ciel.jpg 886w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Vers le ciel&#8221; (To the sky)<\/span><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Gloria Li Mir<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>1981<br \/>\n80 cm x 80 cm<br \/>\nAcrylic on canvas strengthened and worked<\/p>\n<p>The light is one of the main concerns in the work of Gloria Li Mir. Painted mostly in white, the canvas is not only support for her pictures but is the carrier material of the light. White as colour gives the light all its possibilities of reflexion. Her white monochrome series are painted on strengthened canvas, often with movable elements. Hence, the canvas can catch the continual changing qualities of the illumination. For the same purpose Gloria worked forms out of the canvas to create a relief.<\/p>\n<p>In our example \u201cVers le ciel\u201d we have both: besides the white canvas with horizontal line in light grey, there is a movable square and outworked pebbles. It may be somehow a landscape, but it is as well an abstract painting, where the incoming light is reflected. The image changes all the time, depending on the angle and intensity of the incident illumination.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gloria Li Mir<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Born in Lima, Peru, in 1943 (\u2020 February 2025), Gloria studied Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, USA, and drawing (studio work) at the University of Stanford in California, USA. Until 1975 she lived and worked in Guatemala-City, and then in the region of Nice, France. From 1993 to 1998 she travelled and worked in the United States and in Guatemala. In 1998, Gloria returned to Nice. Since 1999 lived and worked in Vallauris, France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gloria Li Mir, a wonderful artist and friend, left this world on February the 15th 2025. To recall her and her oeuvre, we republish our very first Artwork of the Month from February 2015. &nbsp; &#8220;Vers le ciel&#8221; (To the sky) Gloria Li Mir 1981 80 cm x 80 cm Acrylic on canvas strengthened and&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/?p=15446\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4197,8,4196,744,4198,17,16,1637],"class_list":["post-15446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artwork-of-the-month","tag-canvas","tag-gloria-li-mir","tag-light","tag-painting","tag-reflection","tag-to-the-sky","tag-vers-le-ciel","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}