{"id":2272,"date":"2013-07-31T17:50:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T21:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2016-06-01T09:03:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T13:03:44","slug":"maximalism-and-minimalism-in-collage-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/2272","title":{"rendered":"Maximalism and Minimalism in Collage, part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI\u2019m not an art reviewer, nor am I a psychiatrist, but I\u2019ve often thought that Katrien De Blauwer\u2019s special talent is her ability to speak to and for the collective unconscious of human emotions.\u201d
\n\u2014 Laura Tringali Holmes <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I regularly walk to a nearby college natatorium to swim laps. To my periodic astonishment, I will get an idea for a collage while staring at the bottom of a pool. My mind apparently stays cluttered with images of unused ingredients, and I suppose they demand to be composed, even when I am absent from my studio. As I travel to and from the destination, no scrap of litter escapes my attention (an occupational practice for many collage artists). Recently, when I discovered a wadded-up candy or bubble-gum wrapper that looked to me like a tiny, mashed bird (or was it a disfigured fleur-de-lis?), I knew I had to find a place for it, but I preferred that it not get lost in a \u201cmaximalist\u201d design. So I encouraged myself to produce a collage with a minimal of elements. This is not my typical style, but I visually partake daily of numerous examples by peers who excel at this technique, if one can call it that. Thankfully, a bit of their approach may have rubbed off. Laura Tringali Holmes<\/a> has taken it another step by accepting the challenge of creating a collage under the influence<\/a> of a particular fellow artist. Laura often leans in the direction of maximalism, as do I, and her skillful homage to Katrien De Blauwer<\/a>, a master of minimalism, is worth a visit to her site<\/a>. As you may know, I am keen on the cross-fertilization of solid influences. I am not ashamed to say that both of these collage artists are among my favorite sources of rich visual pollen. Watch for a profile of each in future entries here.
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Fear of Failure<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon
\n4.75 x 6.375 inches
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\u201cI\u2019m not an art reviewer, nor am I a psychiatrist, but I\u2019ve often thought that Katrien De Blauwer\u2019s special talent is her ability to speak to and for the collective unconscious of human emotions.\u201d \u2014 Laura Tringali Holmes I regularly walk to a nearby college natatorium to swim laps. To my periodic astonishment, I will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,13,22,18,82,53,54,78,35],"tags":[90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272"}],"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=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6933,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions\/6933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}