Happy Sunday everyone!
Here’s another 5 artists in 5 minutes - all
which incorporate collage.
Hannah Höch was a German Dada artist.
Her most famous piece is "Cut with the Dada
Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly
Cultural Epoch in Germany".
This piece collages images from the newspapers
during a time when German government was undergoing
a chaotic, drawn out, transitional period
after WWI.
She took recognizable figures of the time
and mixed and re-created a new statement about
life and art in the Dada movement.
The image is circus-like, to the point of
ridiculousness - a critique of the political
free-for-all nature between the old Weimer
leaders and the new left-wing communists.
Richard Hamilton was an English painter and
collage artist.
His collage, Just what is it that makes today's
homes so different, so appealing? was produced
in 1956 for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition
of the Independent Group in London.
And it’s considered to be one of the earliest
works of pop art.
The college consists of strangely placed,
everyday, commonplace images mainly taken
from American magazines.
It features a muscular man holding a tootsie
pop and a woman wearing a lampshade hat.
They’re surrounded with emblems of 1950s
wealth, such as a vacuum cleaner and a large
canned ham.
It also features real ads and posters, The
Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson was an early
“talkie” film.
On the ceiling is a large planet earth.
Hamilton said "Pop Art is: popular, transient,
expendable, low-cost, mass-produced, young,
witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, and Big
Business"
John Stezaker is an English conceptual artist
was among the first wave of British conceptual
artists to react against what was then the
predominance of Pop art.
His work is surreal in tone, usually appropriating
pre-existing images such as postcards, film
stills, and publicity photographs.
Art historian Julian Stallabrass said, "The
contrast at the heart of these works is not
between represented and real, but between
the unknowing primitives of popular culture,
and the conscious, ironic artist and viewer
of post-modern images."
One such work from 1991, depicted an image
of a punch clock together with the caption
"Why Spend Time on an Exhibition Like This?"
Wangechi Mutu is a contemporary African artist
working in New York.
She is best known for her large-scale collages
on pieces of Mylar.
Often the central figure is a female body,
with “plant-like or animal-like elements
and intertwined abstract patterns that merge
the organic and the surreal with human forms.
Constructed out of magazine cutouts, paint
and found materials, she sources her material
from media, including commercial fashion and
lifestyle photography, pornography, and automobile
magazines.
These monstrous, yet elegant warrior-like
females, speaks to a historical, cultural,
and personal narrative of postimperialism,
feminism, and globalisation by combining images
of the female body with contemporary narratives
of African culture and tradition.
John Baldessari is an American conceptual
artist working in Santa Monica and Venice,
California.
His work often shows the narrative potential
of images and the associative power of language
within art.
Buildings=Guns=People: Desire, Knowledge,
and Hope (with Smog), 1985/2007 combines black
and white photographs, color photographs,
vinyl paint, and oil tint.
Measuring 11 by 26 feet, it’s like looking
at a billboard up close.
The coldness of the banal pose civic occasions
with missing faces, the grid like modern office
block and guns.
Even the kisses, blue rose and bitten apple
feel flat, and interchangeable, as the title
suggests.
The dots that cover the faces are white, empty
like bullet holes.
It’s grim, yet humorous at the same time.
So there’s 5 artists who use collage in
their work.
Obviously they’re not the only ones, so
let me know in the comments section below,
who is your favorite artist who uses collage
in their work?
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