brightpearl
07-26-2007, 02:24 PM
It's bad enough she'll be coming back to enormous changes...but if Brynn gets back from vacation and there's nothing like this up, there'll be hell to pay. :D
Sooooo....
I like collage. I think it's commonly considered inherently inferior to painting or drawing, but that's terribly myopic imho. There's a similar argument to be made with music and sampling...the less sophisticated forms of it amount to base theft, but in the hands of some, it can transcend the original work and offer commentary on both the elements used, and their meaning in society. It's quite an old technique of course, but here are some newer examples:
Romare Bearden
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/at0140.13s.jpg
Man Ray (his name alone is a work of art, and yes, those are walnuts)
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/images/collection/img_high/66.3236.jpg
I like Jason Rohlf
http://toryfolliard.com/moxiepix/b16_48.jpg
http://toryfolliard.com/moxiepix/b14_48.jpg
(see the birdies?)
Joseph Nechvatal does computer-based collage, which I find a really interesting. In this one, done as he was contemplating the effects of the AIDS virus, he allowed a computer virus to do its work on the imagery he was using in the collage:
http://www.seththompson.info/html/news/nechvatallrg.jpg
The opposite of collage is decollage, where one removes some of the overlay(s) to reveal what's underneath. (This is not to be confused with décolletage, which, though I guess it could be said to concern a kind of reveal, is another thing entirely.)
I guess Mimmo Rotella is the best-known example of decollage.
http://www.prentkunst.nl/images/print/153.jpg
This is my favorite Rotella:
http://www.tract.it/decollage.jpg
Sooooo....
I like collage. I think it's commonly considered inherently inferior to painting or drawing, but that's terribly myopic imho. There's a similar argument to be made with music and sampling...the less sophisticated forms of it amount to base theft, but in the hands of some, it can transcend the original work and offer commentary on both the elements used, and their meaning in society. It's quite an old technique of course, but here are some newer examples:
Romare Bearden
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/at0140.13s.jpg
Man Ray (his name alone is a work of art, and yes, those are walnuts)
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/images/collection/img_high/66.3236.jpg
I like Jason Rohlf
http://toryfolliard.com/moxiepix/b16_48.jpg
http://toryfolliard.com/moxiepix/b14_48.jpg
(see the birdies?)
Joseph Nechvatal does computer-based collage, which I find a really interesting. In this one, done as he was contemplating the effects of the AIDS virus, he allowed a computer virus to do its work on the imagery he was using in the collage:
http://www.seththompson.info/html/news/nechvatallrg.jpg
The opposite of collage is decollage, where one removes some of the overlay(s) to reveal what's underneath. (This is not to be confused with décolletage, which, though I guess it could be said to concern a kind of reveal, is another thing entirely.)
I guess Mimmo Rotella is the best-known example of decollage.
http://www.prentkunst.nl/images/print/153.jpg
This is my favorite Rotella:
http://www.tract.it/decollage.jpg