{"id":190,"date":"2019-02-05T13:09:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T21:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/?p=190"},"modified":"2019-02-05T13:09:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T21:09:31","slug":"60s-hero-martin-sharp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/2019\/02\/05\/60s-hero-martin-sharp\/","title":{"rendered":"60s Hero: Martin Sharp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Martin Ritchie Sharp was an Australian artist, cartoonist, songwriter and film-maker. Sharp made contributions to Australian and international culture from the early 1960s, and was called Australia’s foremost pop artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His\u00a0psychedelic posters\u00a0of\u00a0Bob Dylan,\u00a0Donovan\u00a0and others, rank as classics of the genre. In his most popular designs, the artist embedded letters, photographs, and bizarre cartoon figures into psychedelic patterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sharp’s Album Cover fro Cream<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He studied at the National Art School in East Sydney. There, he co-produced a satirical broadsheet,\u00a0The Arty Wild Oat<\/em>. Through that project he met Richard Walsh, editor of the University of Sydney\u2019s campus newspaper\u00a0Honi Soit<\/em>, and Richard Neville, who edited the University of NSW\u2019s\u00a0Tharunka<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The three of them soon set up a studio in a former horse stable in The Rocks where they created OZ magazine. It turned undergraduate humour into colourful, biting satire that critiqued conservative society. Sharp\u2019s humorous, often lewd graphic style, was combined with an insistence that the best quality paper was used. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OZ magazine covers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

They went on a hippie trip to Asia and decided to go to London right after. Once there they decided London could do with its own version of OZ magazine. It quickly became a counterculture magazine of artistic and political renown. By issue No.3 Martin Sharp\u2019s art direction went psychedelic, selling up to 100,000 copies. OZ London became a graphic design landmark, lasting 48 issues from 1967 to 1973. It was also the subject of the longest obscenity trial in British history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OZ No.3, 1957<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In 2005 Sharp received an Order of Australia (AM) in recognition of service to the arts as a painter and graphic designer, particularly contributing to the POP art movement in Australia and providing support to emerging young artists. In 2012 he received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Visual Arts from the University of Sydney and in 2013 he received a Fellowship from the National Art School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.agda.com.au\/inspiration\/hall-of-fame\/martin-sharp\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.artnet.com\/artists\/martin-sharp\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.martin-sharp.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Sharp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Martin Ritchie Sharp was an Australian artist, cartoonist, songwriter and film-maker. Sharp made contributions to Australian and international culture from the early 1960s, and was called Australia’s foremost pop artist. His\u00a0psychedelic posters\u00a0of\u00a0Bob Dylan,\u00a0Donovan\u00a0and others, rank as classics of the genre. In his most popular designs, the artist embedded letters, photographs, and bizarre cartoon figures into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7855,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-142-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7855"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}