{"id":7897,"date":"2016-12-02T13:12:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T17:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=7897"},"modified":"2017-01-10T11:56:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T15:56:37","slug":"that-dreaded-artist-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/7897","title":{"rendered":"That dreaded Artist Tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cSomehow the language used for describing and discussing art has a reputation for unusual opacity, even sadism.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Robert Atkins<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Someone recently remarked that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/7806\" target=\"_blank\">my description of collage as an intuitive phenomenon<\/a> sounds like \u201cartspeak.\u201d I know what she meant \u2014 confusing, overblown prose that tends to alienate the \u201cuninitiated.\u201d She may have had a point, although I would hope that there is a difference between jargon meant to exclude those who don\u2019t speak the often-elitist language of contemporary art, and an honest attempt to write about something that is difficult to articulate (because, in essense, it is a non-verbal, non-rational process). If I fall prey to obscuring that distinction at <em>The Collage Miniaturist,<\/em> please call me on it. I can take it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dixon_UntitledINDUSTRY-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dixon_UntitledINDUSTRY-1.jpg\" alt=\"dixon_untitledindustry\" width=\"300\" height=\"432\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dixon_UntitledINDUSTRY-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dixon_UntitledINDUSTRY-1-300x432.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 463px; margin-bottom: 40px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Untitled (INDUSTRY)<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage experiment by J A Dixon<br \/>\n8 x 12 inches<br \/>\nnot for sale<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSomehow the language used for describing and discussing art has a reputation for unusual opacity, even sadism.\u201d \u2013 Robert Atkins Someone recently remarked that my description of collage as an intuitive phenomenon sounds like \u201cartspeak.\u201d I know what she meant \u2014 confusing, overblown prose that tends to alienate the \u201cuninitiated.\u201d She may have had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,168,35,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897"}],"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=7897"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8223,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions\/8223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}