{"id":2052,"date":"2013-06-24T20:12:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T00:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2017-11-11T18:07:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T22:07:20","slug":"fallen-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/2052","title":{"rendered":"Fallen Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cLess is not necessarily more.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Milton Glaser<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A profusion of collage artwork has recently come to my attention that makes use of only two or three elements. When this type of minimalist approach is successful, the result can be quite arresting to the eye and mind. More often than not, it looks uninteresting or unfinished to me. It may come as no surprise that I am more of a maximalist, preferring to build a layering of ingredients that transcends the intrinsic quality of the found material. I suppose that I have been more influenced by <a href=\"http:\/\/florencethireau.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/le_point_sur_le_i.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Schwitters<\/a> than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecityreview.com\/s0020ccp2.gif\" target=\"_blank\">Cornell<\/a>. Although there is nothing inherently unappealing to me about \u201csparsity,\u201d admiring those who employ the methodology with skill, I have found myself pulled toward \u201cdensity\u2019 for the past few years. Some artists may think that if one hasn\u2019t achieved a solution with fewer than a dozen parts, the essence of the piece has escaped. I appreciate that viewpoint, and respect those who consistently meet the challenge of limitation. For me, the working surface calls out for more, until a balance of \u201cvisual polyphony\u201d takes form, and the dynamic aspects of color, shape, composition, and symbolic communication have resolved themselves as a distinctive, unified whole.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Dixon_FallenBody.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Dixon_FallenBody.jpg\" title=\"Fallen Body ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"300\" height=\"412\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Dixon_FallenBody.jpg 588w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Dixon_FallenBody-300x412.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 435px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Fallen Body<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage artifact by J A Dixon<br \/>\n7.5 x 10.5 inches<br \/>\navailable for purchase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLess is not necessarily more.\u201d \u2014 Milton Glaser A profusion of collage artwork has recently come to my attention that makes use of only two or three elements. When this type of minimalist approach is successful, the result can be quite arresting to the eye and mind. More often than not, it looks uninteresting or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,118,1,13,22,18,6,5,54,91,78,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052"}],"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=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9804,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions\/9804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}