{"data":{"id":65032,"api_model":"artworks","api_link":"https:\/\/api.artic.edu\/api\/v1\/artworks\/65032","is_boosted":false,"title":"Alquimia III (Alchemy III)","alt_titles":null,"thumbnail":{"lqip":"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAwAFAPMAAHhsX3lvZZl+WJh+XYd4ZY55YYV5bIh6aYx9apF+ZYh+c42Ab42CdJGGeKaLZwAAACH5BAAAAAAAIf8LSW1hZ2VNYWdpY2sOZ2FtbWE9MC40NTQ1NDUALAAAAAADAAUAAAQLMBTQHGLjLEFUMhEAOw==","width":5525,"height":10349,"alt_text":"A work made of strips of linen and cotton, plain weave with exposed warps; applied gesso; painted with gold leaf and pigment; joined by knotted extended ground weft fringe."},"main_reference_number":"1986.1006","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1983,"date_end":1983,"date_display":"1983","date_qualifier_title":"Made","date_qualifier_id":4,"artist_display":"Olga de Amaral (Colombian, born 1932)\nBogot\u00e1, Columbia","place_of_origin":"Colombia","description":"<p><em>Alquimia III<\/em>  comes from Olga de Amaral\u2019s largest series of more than 40 works on the subject of alchemy, which she began in the early 1980s. The work\u2019s title refers to pseudoscientific attempts to turn cheap metal into pure gold. In Amaral\u2019s hands, simple materials\u2014in this case, linen, cotton, and pigment\u2014are transformed into something valuable by artistry and the addition of gold leaf. She was inspired by the Japanese practice of <em>kintsugi<\/em>, in which artisans repair broken pottery by sealing the cracks with gold, thus celebrating imperfections.<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"204.5 \u00d7 79.4 cm (80 1\/2 \u00d7 31 1\/4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":79,"height":204,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Strips of linen and cotton, plain weave with exposed warps; applied gesso; painted with gold leaf and pigment; joined by knotted extended ground weft fringe","inscriptions":"362 \/ \"Alquimia III\" \/ 1983-OLGA DE AMARAL\n[recto, sewn to lower rt. corner; text written in black ink on cloth tag, painted white]","credit_line":"Nicole Williams Contemporary Textile Fund","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1986-87 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago): 27.\n\nMelinda Watt, \"Olga de Amaral, Alchemy III, 1983\" in Highlights of the Art Institute of Chicago, James Rondeau, ed. 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