{"id":252,"date":"2012-08-18T14:10:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T18:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=252"},"modified":"2012-09-08T13:15:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T17:15:16","slug":"martys-borggrrrl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/252","title":{"rendered":"Marty\u2019s Borggrrrl"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cArt is the greatest risk of all because when you\u2019re making something, you\u2019re constantly asking yourself what the hell you\u2019re doing.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014James Rosenquist<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The century-long history of collage casts a deep shadow into the creative present and beyond. It is startling to realize that even Pop Art has been around over half that time. There aren\u2019t many things that haven\u2019t already been tried, or many effects that stake their ground removed from Dada, Surrealism, Constructivism, or one of the other movements influenced thereby. A collage artist must respect and acknowledge the past with a clear mind, internalize it as a part of the intuitive process, and follow a personal investigation anchored on risk. It\u2019s not easy to successfully defy expectations, whether one\u2019s own or the anticipated response, but everything else is practicing etudes or mere fabrication for the marketplace.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Dixon_MartyGrrrl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Dixon_MartyGrrrl.jpg\" alt=\"Marty\u2019s Borggrrrl\" title=\"Marty\u2019s Borggrrrl\" width=\"266\" height=\"543\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Dixon_MartyGrrrl.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Dixon_MartyGrrrl-294x600.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 575px; margin-bottom: 19px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Marty\u2019s Borggrrrl<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\ncollection of J M Strock, Jr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cArt is the greatest risk of all because when you\u2019re making something, you\u2019re constantly asking yourself what the hell you\u2019re doing.\u201d \u2014James Rosenquist The century-long history of collage casts a deep shadow into the creative present and beyond. It is startling to realize that even Pop Art has been around over half that time. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,27,24,18,28,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"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=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}