{"id":11262,"date":"2013-05-26T09:39:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T04:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=11262"},"modified":"2013-05-26T09:39:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T04:39:04","slug":"angelina-jolies-post-mastectomy-topless-painting-to-be-auctioned-for-good-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=11262","title":{"rendered":"Angelina Jolie&#8217;s Post-Mastectomy Topless Painting to Be Auctioned for Good Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/angelina-jolie-s-post-mastectomy-topless-painting-auctioned-for-good-cause.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-11260\" alt=\"angelina-jolie-s-post-mastectomy-topless-painting-auctioned-for-good-cause\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/angelina-jolie-s-post-mastectomy-topless-painting-auctioned-for-good-cause.jpg\" width=\"305\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/angelina-jolie-s-post-mastectomy-topless-painting-auctioned-for-good-cause.jpg 635w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/angelina-jolie-s-post-mastectomy-topless-painting-auctioned-for-good-cause-278x300.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/a>In the wake of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aceshowbiz.com\/celebrity\/angelina_jolie\/\">Angelina Jolie<\/a>&#8216;s inspirational story about her double mastectomy, Swedish artist Johan Andersson known for an acclaimed posthumous portrait of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aceshowbiz.com\/celebrity\/amy_winehouse\/\">Amy Winehouse<\/a> crafted an oil painting featuring her topless post the surgery. The portrait will go under the hammer and the money will go to charity.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected to fetch around $22,000. ArtBelow, the gallery selling the painting, says proceeds from the sale will be donated to Falling Whistles to support campaigns for peace in the Congo, &#8220;a cause which Angelina Jolie herself is very passionate about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Andersson says he could relate to Jolie&#8217;s experience because he too lost his mother to cancer. &#8220;My mother had aggressive breast cancer when I was 15,&#8221; the artist says. &#8220;The thought of her having to have a mastectomy really scared me and she was fortunate enough to have surgery without the mastectomy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The recent news about Angelina stirred an anxiety within me leading me to paint this portrait,&#8221; he continues. &#8220;There is an underlying awkwardness in her demeanor in juxtaposition to the natural beauty of her face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of Angelina Jolie&#8216;s inspirational story about her double mastectomy, Swedish artist Johan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,224,155,137],"tags":[783],"class_list":["post-11262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-angelina-jolie","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}