{"id":9982,"date":"2019-04-18T13:56:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T18:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=9982"},"modified":"2019-04-18T13:56:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T18:56:21","slug":"the-legacy-of-bob-ross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/9982","title":{"rendered":"The Legacy of Bob Ross"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Tracie Tuttle&#8211;<\/strong>Happy trees, little clouds, no\nmistakes, Bob Ross has certainly made a lasting impression on American pop\nculture. From Funko Pop! figures and t-shirts to a Chia Pet in his likeness,\nthe American painter has become a pop culture icon that many people know and\nlove. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2019\/04\/bobrosspainting.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9983\" width=\"396\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2019\/04\/bobrosspainting.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2019\/04\/bobrosspainting-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2019\/04\/bobrosspainting-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ross\u2019 TV show, \u201cThe Joy of Painting\u201d\npremiered in 1983, where he would encourage his viewers to paint along with him\nas he taught them how to paint like a pro. He coined many phrases on the show\nincluding his iconic \u201chappy little clouds\u201d and \u201cwe don\u2019t make mistakes, just\nhappy little accidents.\u201d The show also featured many of Ross\u2019 animal friends, including\nPeapod, a squirrel the artist would occasionally keep in his shirt pocket while\npainting. The show continued to inspire audiences until 1994, one year before\nRoss passed away from lymphoma. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since then, Ross has continued\ninfluencing several generations of people, including Morningside alumni, Emily\nKnapp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI love Bob Ross because he truly\nmakes you feel like you can paint, not to worry if you make \u2018mistakes,\u2019 and\nthat practice makes perfect,\u201d said Knapp. She enjoys watching Ross\u2019 show because\nof his positive attitude, relaxing voice, and painting techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Terri McGaffin, chair of the art\ndepartment, has another reason why Bob Ross has been so influential. She said,\n\u201cAt the time the TV show appeared, I think the public was skeptical about art,\nthey were surrounded by elite art from the neo-expressionist period among\nothers. Bob Ross made art accessible and allowed people to say \u201cIt\u2019s fun and I\ncan do it too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to be inspired by Bob Ross\ntoo, you can find episodes from his TV show on both Netflix and Hulu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tracie Tuttle&#8211;Happy trees, little clouds, no mistakes, Bob Ross has certainly made a lasting impression on American pop culture. From Funko Pop! figures and t-shirts to a Chia Pet in his likeness, the American painter has become a pop culture icon that many people know and love. Ross\u2019 TV show, \u201cThe Joy of Painting\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":9983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[46945,53889,53890,53891],"class_list":["post-9982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","tag-art-2","tag-bob-ross","tag-painting","tag-thejoyofpainting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9984,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9982\/revisions\/9984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}