{"id":10098,"date":"2018-03-17T11:52:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=10098"},"modified":"2018-03-21T13:43:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T17:43:23","slug":"master-of-merz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/10098","title":{"rendered":"Master of Merz"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cSchwitters began making collages in 1918 and produced them in large numbers for the remainder of his career. In 1919 he began using the term \u2018Merz\u2019 (which originated from the German word \u2018Kommerz\u2019, meaning \u2018commerce\u2019) to describe his principle of assembling found materials.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Louise Hughes<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/TheCherryPicture_KS.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Das Kirschbild<\/em><\/a> \u2014 a fitting followup for the previous entry on abstraction.<\/p>\n<p>And for those of us who never tire of learning new things about the incomparable <em>Master of Merz:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 3px; color: blue; padding-left: 11px;\" align=\"left\">\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/lakesculture.co.uk\/kurt-schwitters-the-master-of-merz\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>from the Armitt Museum Collection in the Lake District<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 3px; color: blue; padding-left: 11px;\" align=\"left\">\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/whats-on\/tate-britain\/exhibition\/schwitters-britain\/schwitters-britain-exhibition-guide-introduction\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>from the Tate Britain<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 3px; color: blue; padding-left: 11px;\" align=\"left\">\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guggenheim.org\/artwork\/artist\/Kurt-Schwitters\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>from the Guggenheim<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 9px; margin-bottom: 7px; color: blue; padding-left: 11px;\" align=\"left\">\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sprengel-museum.com\/the_kurt_schwitters_archive\/symposium_2007\/index.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>from the Sprengel Museum Hannover<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/TheCherryPicture_KS.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/TheCherryPicture_KS.jpg\" title=\"Merzbild 32 A. Das Kirschbild ~ K Schwitters\" alt=\"Merzbild 32 A. Das Kirschbild ~ K Schwitters\" width=\"350\" height=\"451\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/TheCherryPicture_KS.jpg 816w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/TheCherryPicture_KS-300x387.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/TheCherryPicture_KS-768x990.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/TheCherryPicture_KS-794x1024.jpg 794w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 472px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moma.org\/learn\/moma_learning\/kurt-schwitters-merz-picture-32-a-the-cherry-picture-1921\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Merzbild 32 A. Das Kirschbild<\/a><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nKurt Schwitters, 1921<br \/>\nThe Museum of Modern Art, New York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSchwitters began making collages in 1918 and produced them in large numbers for the remainder of his career. In 1919 he began using the term \u2018Merz\u2019 (which originated from the German word \u2018Kommerz\u2019, meaning \u2018commerce\u2019) to describe his principle of assembling found materials.\u201d \u2014 Louise Hughes &nbsp; Das Kirschbild \u2014 a fitting followup for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,13,5,54,63,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10098"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10654,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098\/revisions\/10654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}