Collage in art. 4 artists you should know about
Interdisciplinary artist Mary Lum in her collage work combines photographic fragments of urban
architecture, architecural elements found in vintage comic books and acrylic print on a paper to
creat new spaces suggesting the intertwined facts and fictions of urban experience.
Cutting and layering paper is analogous to wandering it the city. In her works we can find fatastic
world mixed with our everyday views. Mary has been member in the Visual Arts department of
Bennington Collage since 2005.
2. Gordon Magnin
Images from highfashion , bodybuilding and pornography are based choice of the artist. He plays
with human body in every possible way. Repetition, converting, using geometrical shapes lets him
create inimitalbe humans creatures. His art is somehow discomposing and refer to this days cult
of the body.
3. Virginia Echeverria
As she says she attempts to to make manifest an invisible energy of the metaphysical world.
By combinations of variety textures, shapes, colors, and materials ranging from colored paper and
magazine cutouts she creats magical world. Her works build nice mood around. Kind of naive
pictures seems to be the memoir of childhood.
4. Jose Romussi
Jose is a forerunner in his technic, in addition to paper and glue, he adds a third element to the
traditional components of collage : thread. Based in Berlin, the Chilean artist adds colorful
embroidery to vintage or new photographs, adding meaning to abstract gestures or underlining
their dynamic. Combinations of black&withe pictures with vivid threads give strongly estetic effect
which can also have a not allways obvious meaning
sources:
https://www.artsy.net/artist/marylum
http://lenscratch.com/2010/12/gordonmagnin/
http://www.virginiaecheverria.com/
http://www.joseromussi.com/
http://www.visualartscork.com/
1.What do You think about that artists?
2.Do You generally find collage interesting or it is a trivial technique of art?
Comments
As I'm mainly interested in darker, more ethereal and gothic kind of art, I can recommend an artist called Caryn Drexl. She's interested in various forms of expression - photography, dollmaking, photomanipulation - but recently she started to experiment more on the field of collage, using photographs, fabrics, and embroidery hoops.
I started my adventure with art with digital collages :) I think it's a very accessible type of art and also one of the most underrated, because it's rarely what we consider 'beautiful' and, as you've mentioned, the meaning isn't immediately obvious. Art, of course, doesn't have to be beautiful or meaningful, but with collages the issue seems even trickier. I heard people say it's not art at all, because 'how can newspaper clippings, random objects and glue be art'. I must say, it got to me; I stopped making them and cannot really go back to it :(
Still, I think collages are fascinating, precisely because they combine such different media and objects we wouldn't even think to put together. They seem to me like a crossover between painting and sculpture, they are ~flat but somehow tactile. One thing I really enjoyed about making collages is how easy it was to actually obscure the idea I had behind them, leaving the interpretation solely to the viewer.
I dont follow arts at all, but after reading your presentation i think i like his works. That kind of art reminds me of CD-Covers or something like that :D
2.Do You generally find collage interesting or it is a trivial technique of art?
I never really thought about it, 1st thing that comes to my mind after hearing "collage" is kindergarten. I guess I will have to educate myself more in terms of art.
Collage looks very futuristically, like ahead of their time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collage#/media/File:Compotier_avec_fruits,_violon_et_verre.jpg
I like Mary Lum and Gordon Magnin the most from the artists you presented. I am a fan of surreal collages that are photos of nature manipulated to show alternate realities. Here you can look at some of Yang Yongliang's works. I also appreciate the atmosphere of Victoria Siemer's photomanipulations. I also recommend looking at Travis Bedel's work. Alexander Korzer-Robinson's art is also very interesting.
Where in your opinion is a line between collage and other disciplines of art? I mean, for example this quilling technique that is becoming more and more popular among artists or some photomanipulations, such as Margarita Kareva's work?
Jose Romussi seems to me interesting. Generally I view this art as interesting.
Collage pays the viewer's attention.
The artist can create works with many materials. Thanks to the fact he can easier show what he feels.
Niiicee!!! really good looking estethic pieces of art! I love to watch it, but never thought of making one. Maybe one day I would try it?
2.Do You generally find collage interesting or it is a trivial technique of art?
Well anything, no matter if simple or complex can be any of these - i think if something looks good it just looks good and the opposite. I think the techinque doesn't matter as much as the final product. It can be some value but never expressing the whole final product.