{"id":5557,"date":"2011-09-06T11:37:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T09:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistswindow.com\/new\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2011-09-06T11:37:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T09:37:21","slug":"collagge-theme-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/collagge-theme-seven\/","title":{"rendered":"Collage: Theme Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jackie and I worked on a rather enjoyable theme this week &#8211; &#8220;Ouzo-meze&#8221;. In high summer here the cafes are full of holidaying Greeks enjoying cool, cloudy glasses of their favourite brand of ouzo and nibbling plates of <em>mezes<\/em> or <em>pikilia<\/em>. It&#8217;s extremly rare to see a native drinking an ouzo without the accompanyment of a saucer of olives and small cubes of bread and maybe cheese. Families often tuck into large mounds of <em>Pikilia<\/em> with their ouzo &#8211; an <em>&#8220;assortment&#8221;<\/em> of either meat or fish which can include: fried cheese, roast meats, sausage, meatballs, oven potatoes, hardboiled eggs, chips, tomato, cucumber, bread cubes and tzatziki&#8230;.and that&#8217;s just the meat version!<\/p>\n<p>I have a few collage-paintings on this theme underway &#8211; here&#8217;s the first one which features a delicious ouzo from Plomari in Lesbos and a few Kalamata olives. I like the way it captures the strong colour and energy of summer. The Greek text means &#8220;have a good summer&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1072\" title=\"Ouzo-WEB\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Ouzo-WEB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jackie&#8217;s collages can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/jackiesherwood.weebly.com\/art-blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackie and I worked on a rather enjoyable theme this week &#8211; &#8220;Ouzo-meze&#8221;. In high summer here the cafes are full of holidaying Greeks enjoying cool, cloudy glasses of their favourite brand of ouzo and nibbling plates of mezes or pikilia. It&#8217;s extremly rare to see a native drinking an ouzo without the accompanyment of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}