“An artist is an artist before they have ever produced a single thing. The production of something is not what makes a body an artist. It is the soul that makes an artist, the core of the psyche that fills the person, the creative fire inside a person that make them an artist. And if that person has the soul of an artist, that is they have the burning as each and every individual does, then they are an artist, they are entitled to the title artist, we are all entitled to the title artist before we have produced one single thing”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés
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READ: Running throughout the month of October, the show is made up of a dozen of Fremlin’s recent paintings. These include her regular watercolours but the stars of the show are her recent mixed media and collage works - Collage work inspires longtime watercolour artist - via 100 Mile Free Press
READ: Artist-director Brambilla describes the collage he created to accompany the song “Even Better Than the Real Thing” to The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s about the death of Elvis Presley, and it’s about the creation of the myth of Elvis Presley and also the downfall of Elvis Presley,” says Brambilla. “It basically has a parallel storyline between the birth of Las Vegas from the desert becoming progressively more dense, and it goes through the eras of Las Vegas finally ending in the kind of Disneyland version of Las Vegas, which is today. I think the medium fits the concept.” - U2’s Electrifying Performance at the Las Vegas Sphere Is a Next-Level Experience - via Wealth of Geeks
READ: The booklet is all these collages that my sister and I made of everything from behind-the-scenes photographs to AI images, to stuff we shot on a screen in a studio to outside stuff. It’s the most beautiful book we’ve ever done. It’s the process, the art itself. It’s all these things, our path, our future, like pouring together in a way that we’ve never really done. I’m really happy with how it turned out - Interview: Code Orange’s Jami Morgan on Corrupting Rock’s Past to Solidify Its Future - via The Pit
READ: The collage work started, she says, “While I was painting. When I didn’t like what I was doing, I tore them up.” She has boxes of such bits, she adds, including “pieces from other collages” along with cut-out images and materials collected over the years. Her grandmother, Louise Ameilia Strauss-Ernst, for whom she’s named, was also an artist whose collages were part of the first Cologne Dada exhibition. Combined with her interest in Medieval and Renaissance art, Ernst’s collages continue the surrealist tradition her family helped initiate while extending that sensibility firmly into the canon of 21st-century art - Amy Ernst, Granddaughter of Max Ernst, Extends Family Art Legacy with Surrealist Collage - via Southwest Contemporary
READ: The collage lives on, even through our era of AI-generated art and high-tech digital wizardry. There’s something reassuring about the medium, cutting and combining visual elements into something irreverent or decidedly new - Trashriot’s Dynamic Vintage Collages - via Moss and Fog
READ: Jamal Thorne’s intricate mixed-media artworks are collages of color, paint and tape exploring themes of trauma, race and memory. Throughout his career, Thorne has frequently pulled on history and current events depicting snippets from the Civil Rights Movement and instances of police brutality. The artist had a specific direction and vision for his work - Inspired by fatherhood, Jamal Thorne explores what it means to raise a Black boy and be a Black man - via The Bay State Banner
PCC: 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!
PCC: 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
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