{"id":14572,"date":"2013-12-02T03:18:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T03:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=14572"},"modified":"2013-12-02T04:58:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T04:58:04","slug":"martin-sharp-1942-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/12\/02\/martin-sharp-1942-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Sharp, 1942\u20132013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oz magazine no. 15, October 1968.<\/em><\/p>\n

The psychedelic art of Australian artist Martin Sharp<\/a> has featured here on several occasions. Unlike his British and American contemporaries who maintained a single graphic style, Sharp was a versatile artist whose work could range from loose, often cartoony drawing and painting to very detailed collage designs; he was also as happy as any other artist of the period to plunder art history, as the cover for issue 15 of Oz<\/em> demonstrates. The Mick Jagger figure from that cover was later reworked as a poster for “Turner’s Purple Orchestra”, one of a number of pieces of Sharp art which can be glimpsed throughout Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg’s Performance<\/em> (1970).<\/p>\n

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Performance (1970): Michele Breton and a Martin Sharp collage.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sharp’s involvement with Oz<\/em> magazine, and the creation of a handful of endlessly reproduced designs\u2014the Bob Dylan Mr Tambourine Man<\/em> poster, Jimi Hendrix in a Jackson Pollock explosion, the sleeve art for Cream’s Disraeli Gears<\/em>\u2014makes his art some of the most visible of the period. People may not necessarily know the name but they’ll recognise the work.<\/p>\n

In 2009 Sharp’s Oz<\/em> colleague Germaine Greer<\/a> wrote a warm appraisal of the artist and his work. A few more examples follow. There’s a great selection of posters and other art and design here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Guardian<\/em>:\u00a0Martin Sharp, Australian artist who came to symbolise the ’60s<\/a> | Martin Sharp in pictures<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mister Tambourine Man (1966).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dantalian’s Chariot (1967).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Max (The Birdman) Ernst (1967).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Disraeli Gears (1967) by Cream.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Mighty Baby (1969).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Oz magazine no. 15, October 1968. The psychedelic art of Australian artist Martin Sharp has featured here on several occasions. Unlike his British and American contemporaries who maintained a single graphic style, Sharp was a versatile artist whose work could range from loose, often cartoony drawing and painting to very detailed collage designs; he was … Continue reading “Martin Sharp, 1942\u20132013”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,1029,7,48,43,3,44,17],"tags":[418,5448,5450,371,5449,5447,1242,417,112,5446,1629,306,167,2531],"class_list":["post-14572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-collage","category-film","category-illustrators","category-magazines","category-music","category-painting","category-psychedelia","tag-bob-dylan","tag-cream-group","tag-dantalians-chariot","tag-donald-cammell","tag-germaine-greer","tag-jackson-pollock","tag-jimi-hendrix","tag-martin-sharp","tag-max-ernst","tag-michele-breton","tag-mick-jagger","tag-nicolas-roeg","tag-obituaries","tag-oz-magazine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3N2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}