THE WEEKENDER 09 | 2024
Collage News & Inspiration
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“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”
― Robert Henri
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Stating that she continues to work on new projects, Odabaşı added, "In my next exhibition, I plan to bring a new perspective to the details of Istanbul by blending oil paintings, collages, and contemporary art techniques. Special areas for me such as Karaköy, Tomtom, Tarlabaşı, Balat, Galata and Çukurcuma in Istanbul will have a significant place in this new project. I desire the unique atmosphere, streets, and people of these areas to come to life in my oil paintings and other artistic works. I also want to produce oil paintings that increase sensitivity and awareness about the human tragedy in Palestine. I will continue to work in a versatile manner." - Istanbul's diverse palette reflected through photography at AKM exhibit - via Daily Sabah
Burnley does not identify the source images he uses in his collage, or who the picture fragments were originally supposed to represent. They might come from Renaissance portraits, 19th-century genre paintings, high school yearbooks, or anything in between. More important than the specific backstory of the images is the effect they have when smashed together, often with little attempt to hide the seam. - Collages at Philly’s Print Center reimagine race and portraiture - via WHYY
Collage animation has a long history but has not been given a lot of attention as a while. It’s a rebellious, DIY technique that has counter-cultural leanings and is also a technique that seamlessly transferred from analog to digital tools. In a world where we are assaulted with information every damn second, it’s as though we are in fact living now in a collaged world where we can’t make head or tail of what’s real or fake. Collage is a regular part of our lives now: photoshops, gifs, memes, AI, deep fake. - Binocular Briefs - Spotlight on Collage - via AWN
After four years of research, she created her first two tulip collages, laying the foundation for what would become a pivotal project: Tulip Palepai, navigating the river of the world (2017), a grand collage fashioned from over 100,000 dried tulip petals. Motivated by this new practice, Tee began a seasonal project, where each spring, she creates two more “Tampan Tulips” collages. - Jennifer Tee Collages Tulips into Vivid, Cross-Cultural Tapestries - via Artsy
Plenty of people loathe change. The same goes for artists: They figure out their style, and they stick to it. (You know a long-necked Modigliani when you see one.) Lee Krasner, however, was not that kind of artist. A major figure of postwar American art, Krasner swung from self-portraiture to dense geometric patterns to sweeping gestural abstraction throughout her nearly 60 years in the studio. Even her colors (at turns muted and brash) and materials (charcoal, collage, oil paint both thick and thin) were constantly evolving, chasing whatever ideas she allowed to bubble up from within. - Lee Krasner’s Radical Reinventions - via Vogue
“At the University of Massachusetts Boston, I studied art and developed a freestyle using media such as oil pastel, charcoal, oil paint, and acrylic,” said Gossios Burg. “Later turning my passion towards collage and mixed media. Today my work includes acrylics with mixed media and collages, oil-pastels, watercolors, alcohol inks and more.” - Creating joy, beauty, and hope through art - via The Sun
It’s a little bit... what's the word? It is all provisional until it's glued down, which is very different from the way that I do it normally. That's quite interesting and just adds a different aspect to it. But this is the first show of, it's not all collages, but mostly collage and some slightly larger works. So that's good, and it looks pretty good. But like I say, at this moment when I go back there it'll be like looking at my naked body in the mirror, in the hotel room, kind of thing. It's something I just want to ignore. Pretend it isn't there. - An Interview with David Shrigley Where He Reveals Himself Slowly - via Juxtapoz
“I realized that the art I wanted to do had a serious political undertone that I wouldn’t be able to achieve through being a designer. Instead, I needed control of the bigger picture,” he wrote. “This was a real moment of transformation for me, as I realized that all the things I couldn’t do on stage I could do with collage.” - Worcester LGBTQ+ artist Nathan Manna shines new light on queer history - via Mass Live
Between 1904 and 1907, the artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque worked together to develop Cubism, a movement which abandoned the traditional single point of view in a work of art and changed the trajectory of Western art history. The pair broke down the traditional understanding of vision, shattering perspectives and creating artworks with multiple viewpoints that complicated notions of what the world truly looks like. During the development of Cubism, the artists would coin the term “collage” to describe a new way of curating and bringing together materials in an artwork. Their neologism was an evolution of the french verb “coller,” meaning to glue or stick together. - Art Bites: Picasso and Braque Coined a New Art Term - via artnet
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A selection of challenge submissions from last week is up on our website and can be seen here, the image prompt for next week is available to download here
Our 2024 Workbook is out and available for sale on our website. Our weekly creative challenge remains free and open to everyone and everything, digital or analog artists, French or not. The workbook is an optional add-on for those who prefer to work with paper and don’t want to print our images themselves. Like every year, the book is designed so that you can either take it apart or create your collages in the book itself. Week numbers and image sources are on the back of each image, so even if your books falls apart at one point, you will always know what’s what!
And last but not least, have a look at and/or submit to our ‘other’ Instagram account Paris Collage Collective Unlimited where we showcase collages that have absolutely nothing to do with our weekly creative challenge.
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