{"id":1340,"date":"2013-02-25T12:05:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T16:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2013-11-22T21:09:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T01:09:10","slug":"journal-collage-fifth-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/1340","title":{"rendered":"Journal Collage  |  Fifth Page"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTime consecrates and what is gray with age becomes religion.\u201d
\n\u2014 Friedrich Schiller<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The collage artworks of Kurt Schwitters possess a \u201cvintage\u201d appearance to our eye, but it is essential to keep in mind that his \u201cMerz\u201d ingredients were predominantly gleaned from a concurrent environment. It was Joseph Cornell, via the influence of Max Ernst and others, who consciously selected antique images to reinforce the romance and melancholy of feelings past. Apparently, a significant number of active collage artists limit their resources to vintage found material. Don\u2019t get me wrong; I love this work. The immediate \u201cretro effect\u201d can be quite compelling. It would take a stronger soul than mine to dismiss the inherent dignity that comes with the marvelous scrap from an outdated encyclopaedia or the now-funky gravitas of post-war, mass-market magazines. However, from my perspective, a vital element of contemporary collage is the incorporation of present-day material and the recycling of twenty-first century detritus. I find it even more interesting to see vintage ingredients effectively juxtaposed with the ephemera of our own time. Nevertheless, every serious artist has a set of aesthetic considerations, genre goals, and process parameters that mold decisions. Due respect should be extended to the overall objectives that each collage artist brings to this exceptionally diverse media.
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Untitled (Just Another Prophesy)<\/em><\/strong>
\njournal collage by J A Dixon
\n8.5 x 11 inches, not for sale<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cTime consecrates and what is gray with age becomes religion.\u201d \u2014 Friedrich Schiller The collage artworks of Kurt Schwitters possess a \u201cvintage\u201d appearance to our eye, but it is essential to keep in mind that his \u201cMerz\u201d ingredients were predominantly gleaned from a concurrent environment. It was Joseph Cornell, via the influence of Max Ernst […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,52,13,22,18,6,68,5,66,63,35,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340"}],"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=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3056,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}