{"id":15458,"date":"2021-10-11T22:02:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T02:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=15458"},"modified":"2022-09-22T17:15:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T21:15:23","slug":"still-life-with-peony-tulips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/15458","title":{"rendered":"Still Life with Peony Tulips"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe think of the things we own and use as defining us in some way, but that can only be true if we first describe the things. Describing is a remarkable human act. It connects our inner and outer experience: as we observe and record the material world, we respond and reflect. We enter the realm where the material world meets the imagination. That\u2019s the fertile ground of art.\u201d
\n\u2013 Sheldon Tapley
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I created this artwork for The Object Seen: Contemporary Still Life<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, current exhibition at Art Center of the Bluegrass in Danville. The juror was Sheldon Tapley, masterful painter, draftsman, and Stodghill Professor of Art at Centre College. I received a 2nd-place ribbon and cash prize. <\/a>The honor came as a surprise, since I don\u2019t consider myself a practitioner or student of still life as an art form. I have, however, looked deeply at artwork made by Sheldon and those who are. The arms-length quality of modern still life has compelled my close scrutiny for many years. Given that influence, I brought to the genre what I\u2019ve discovered by \u201cpainting in papers\u201d from direct observation (the long sweep of art history hovering somewhere outside my conscious awareness, with its rich tradition of artists tackling visual cornacopias of objects and edible fare). I decided to interpret a tabletop group of objects from raw material, rather than assemble a conventional collage composition from found images.<\/p>\n

Please view a video clip of the juror\u2019s remarks about my artwork.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The peony tulip blossoms were created en plein air<\/em><\/a> in a local flower garden. The small \u201cstill life within a still life\u201d was commenced and partially finished from a setup of actual objects. I relied on photo reference for the rest. Ingredients include colored paper (printed and unprinted), wallpaper, ruined book parts, tissue, reclaimed tea bags, string, and a dried leaf, plus minimal use of walnut juice, burnt coffee, tinted paste, and marker-ink edging. Adhesives include wheat paste, acrylic matte medium, and white glue.<\/p>\n

 
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Still Life with Peony Tulips<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage on salvaged canvas
\n18 x 23.75 inches<\/p>\n

\u2022  Second Place Prize<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe think of the things we own and use as defining us in some way, but that can only be true if we first describe the things. Describing is a remarkable human act. It connects our inner and outer experience: as we observe and record the material world, we respond and reflect. We enter the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,1,29,216,8,583,22,18,111,35,169,623,9],"tags":[90,308,557,313,415,418,339,319,625,624],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15458"}],"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=15458"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16524,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15458\/revisions\/16524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}