Collage in art. 4 artists you should know about them.
Mary Lum
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.
Gordon Magnin
Images from high-fashion , body-building and pornography are based choice of the artist. He play 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.
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.
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
What do You think about that artists?
Do You generally find collage interesting or it is a trivial technique of art?
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I think that artists who make collages are very smart and observant. They have to look at different parts and know how to joint them to make nice looking and interesting composition.
In my opinion collage is an interesting, modern way to express some visions. I like them very much ;)
I think that artists who are working on collages have to be very smart and intelligent to combine some elements to logical unity.
Even though artist uses ready components it isn’t easier to create a collage.
I think it might be even harder because you have limited sources to create a piece of art you have in mind.
That’s why I think that artists who create collages have to be much more creative than other artists.
Some of this works are quite interesting. But I wouldn't hang it on my wall.