{"id":1953,"date":"2013-06-12T10:48:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T14:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2021-05-19T17:33:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:33:20","slug":"fears-and-fancies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/1953","title":{"rendered":"Fears and Fancies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cArt is never finished, only abandoned.\u201d
\n\u2014 Leonardo Da Vinci<\/p>\n

\u201cA painting is never finished. It simply stops in interesting places.\u201d
\n\u2014 Paul Gardner<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of the many fascinating aspects of this medium is that a collage can never be ruined, but only delayed. Perhaps it is the most forgiving of all art forms. Nevertheless, artists have been thinking about the issue of completion for a very long time, and a vital part of creating a collage is deciding when to quit. We see many examples that appear overworked to the point of exhaustion, or that fall short of a fitting denouement. Whether one considers it abandonment, suspension, or conclusion, the collage artist, like any creative person, must pay attention to a process that leads to the notion of \u201cahhh… the end.\u201d When does the sculptor lay down the chisel? How does the choreographer know a dance is finished? When does the poet decide to stop revising? <\/p>\n

A collage may languish in the working space for days, or even weeks, defying its appointed culmination. With experience, one can recognize the need for postponing a final resolution, and it usually involves matters of both compositional harmony and ingredient quality. While some arrangements follow a natural progression of assembly, others cannot be pushed to premature completion. If a \u201cmissing\u201d element eludes the sought-after symbiotic result, one must wait until a solution is clear. In spite of its size, today\u2019s featured miniature is such a case in point. Brought out several times for fresh review and incremental color refinements, it was deemed unfinished until a second egret presented itself. How does one know when a collage is done? For me, the more important consideration is learning how to see that it is not.
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Fears and Fancies<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon
\n4.5 x 4.5 inches
\nprivate collection
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\u201cArt is never finished, only abandoned.\u201d \u2014 Leonardo Da Vinci \u201cA painting is never finished. It simply stops in interesting places.\u201d \u2014 Paul Gardner One of the many fascinating aspects of this medium is that a collage can never be ruined, but only delayed. Perhaps it is the most forgiving of all art forms. Nevertheless, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,22,18,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953"}],"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=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15159,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/15159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}