{"id":140068,"date":"2025-05-29T00:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T00:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/140068\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T00:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T00:39:10","slug":"old-oil-paintings-are-suffering-from-chemical-acne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/140068\/","title":{"rendered":"Old oil paintings are suffering from chemical \u201cacne\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">WHEN AN OIL painting is dried and finished, it is supposed to stay that way. Yet when Ida Bronken, an art conservator, began to prepare Jean-Paul Riopelle\u2019s \u201cComposition 1952\u201d for display in 2006, she noticed drops of wet paint were trickling down the canvas from deep within the masterpiece\u2019s layers. Equally odd were the tiny, hard, white lumps poking through the painting\u2019s surface, as if it had a case of adolescent acne. Other sections seemed soft and moist; some paint layers were coming apart \u201clike two pieces of buttered bread\u201d, Ms Bronken says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHEN AN OIL painting is dried and finished, it is supposed to stay that way. Yet when Ida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,229,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-140068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-science-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114588337014202430","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}