{"id":6725,"date":"2016-04-25T14:51:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T18:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=6725"},"modified":"2020-05-30T18:16:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T22:16:42","slug":"spencer-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/6725","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Japanese word yugen<\/em> means \u2018aesthetically mysterious.\u2019 We don\u2019t have a word like this to describe art in the Western art world. Yugen as a concept worries some because it describes an intangible. It says \u2018awe\u2019 and \u2018mystery\u2019 can also be qualitative aesthetics, and the beauty of this is that though yugen is a Japanese word what it describes is universal in reach. Though a refined concept, it is an everyman\u2019s word because it describes perfectly a good deal of the art the entire world makes to achieve personal and cultural satisfaction. In a time when we are 1% and 99% sensitive, let us indeed remember that the art mainstream, the academic discourse, the intellectual game of art about art, the ivory tower is only 1% of why the world makes art.\u201d
\n\u2014 Randall Morris
\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the second consecutive year<\/a>, I had the opportunity to create a collage as prize art for the preeminent single-shot rifle match held in Kentucky. Visitors to this blogsite know my ongoing fascination with collage as an ideal medium for total spontaneity<\/a>. Of course, it also lends itself perfectly to a planned, thematic solution for specific appeal.<\/p>\n

I discovered enough ingredients in my stash of papers to cover the Australian topic, but also to entertain a desired level of synchronicity<\/a> to encompass a few distinctive characteristics of the event. In addition to my personal enjoyment, I am always pleased to see the positive response to collage as art. It has to be more than the element of the unexpected, although, admittedly, collage is never what people anticipate in these situations. I think it may be the particular combination of accessibility, interactivity, and \u201cmystery\u201d so inherent in the medium. I suppose there is more to said about that, but we shall save it for another day.
\n <\/p>\n

\"Spencer<\/a><\/p>\n

Spencer Gulf<\/strong><\/em>
\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon
\n7 x 9.5 inches
\nprize art for The Great .310 Australian Cadet Martini Match of 2016<\/em>
\nawarded to D Simpson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Japanese word yugen means \u2018aesthetically mysterious.\u2019 We don\u2019t have a word like this to describe art in the Western art world. Yugen as a concept worries some because it describes an intangible. It says \u2018awe\u2019 and \u2018mystery\u2019 can also be qualitative aesthetics, and the beauty of this is that though yugen is a Japanese […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,119,22,18,63,35,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725"}],"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=6725"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9909,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions\/9909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}