{"id":13449,"date":"2014-11-30T23:30:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T23:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=13449"},"modified":"2014-11-30T23:30:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T23:30:28","slug":"landslides-in-art-part-21-harlequin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2014\/11\/30\/landslides-in-art-part-21-harlequin\/","title":{"rendered":"Landslides in Art Part 21: Harlequin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Harlequin<\/h5>\n<p>It has been a long time since I posted in my Landslides in Art series, so this one is well overdue. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/12\/04\/landslides-in-art-part-20-a-cannonade-on-the-matterhorn-1862\/\">The last posting in this series was made almost a year ago<\/a>.\u00a0 I really don&#8217;t know very much about this artist, except that she is based in Taipei in Taiwan, and uses the pseudonym Harlequin or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/04881004009855432938\">Harlequipan<\/a>.\u00a0 The painting in question appeared on her <a href=\"http:\/\/harlequinpan.blogspot.hk\/2010_04_01_archive.html\">blog<\/a>, which new seems to be defunct, four years ago.\u00a0 It is simply titled <a href=\"http:\/\/harlequinpan.blogspot.hk\/2010_04_01_archive.html\">Landslide<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13450\" style=\"width: 426px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/11\/14_12-Harelquin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13450\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/11\/14_12-Harelquin.jpg\" alt=\"Harlequin\" width=\"416\" height=\"822\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Landslide by Harlequin<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>To me this appears to depict the type of channelised flow failures that are common on the steep slopes in the Central Mountains of Taiwan, triggered both by heavy rainfall and by earthquakes, such as this one from the 1999 earthquake:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13451\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/11\/PICT2375-e1417389844319.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13451\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13451\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/11\/PICT2375-e1417389844319.jpg\" alt=\"Harlequin\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A landslide from Lishan, Taiwan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>I would welcome suggestions for future posts in this series.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 21 in my series examining the ways in which landslides are depicted in art, featuring a piece by a Taiwanese artist called Harlequin<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":13450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[584],"tags":[502,469,81],"class_list":["post-13449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","tag-art","tag-featured","tag-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}