{"id":19273,"date":"2025-02-26T16:16:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T20:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=19273"},"modified":"2025-02-27T16:42:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T20:42:33","slug":"the-genre-is-ever-with-us-to-explore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/19273","title":{"rendered":"The genre is ever with us to explore"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI called it <em><strong>Merz<\/strong><\/em>. This new process whose principle was the use of any material. It was the second syllable of Kommerz. It first appeared in Merzbild, a painting in which, apart from its abstract forms, one could read Merz, cut and pasted from an advertisement for Kommerz und Privatbank. I was looking for a term to designate this new genre, for I could not classify my paintings under old labels such as expressionism, cubism, futurism, and so on.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Kurt Schwitters &nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Dixon_MereScrupulosity.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Dixon_MereScrupulosity.jpg\" title=\"Mere Scrupulosity ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"444\" height=\"547\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Dixon_MereScrupulosity.jpg 888w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Dixon_MereScrupulosity-300x370.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Dixon_MereScrupulosity-831x1024.jpg 831w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Dixon_MereScrupulosity-768x946.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 566px; margin-bottom: 33px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Mere Scrupulosity<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature on canvas panel<br \/>\n8 x 10 inches, in the <em>Merz<\/em> tradition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI called it Merz. This new process whose principle was the use of any material. It was the second syllable of Kommerz. It first appeared in Merzbild, a painting in which, apart from its abstract forms, one could read Merz, cut and pasted from an advertisement for Kommerz und Privatbank. I was looking for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,273,1,150,13,18,5,63],"tags":[90,308,325,313,418,309,310],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19273"}],"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=19273"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19365,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19273\/revisions\/19365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}