“If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. You’ll already have made that art, and when they’re talking about the last thing you did, you should already be making the next thing.
If bad reviews (of whatever kind) upset you, just don’t read them. It’s not like you’ve signed an agreement with the person buying the book to exchange your book for their opinion.
Do whatever you have to do to keep making art. I know people who love bad reviews, because it means they’ve made something happen and made people talk; I know people who have never read any of their reviews. It’s their call. You get on with making art.”
― Neil Gaiman
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READ: “See, this Lichtenstein is super interesting,” Jensen said, pointing to Lichtenstein’s Woman Contemplating a Yellow Cup (Study), lot number 15 in the Phillips sale. “These are the kinds of opportunities I tend to look for. A well-known market that perhaps has an overlooked segment.” The Lichtenstein, a late work made around the time of his Guggenheim retrospective, was originally categorized as a study, but has been re-christened a collage, an acknowledgment of the tape and cut paper the artist used when he made it in 1994. Paintings by Lichtenstein can run into the tens of millions; the collage was estimated to sell for between $1.5 million and $2 million - GRWM, Phillips Evening Sale Edition with Art Adviser Dane Jensen - via ARTnews
READ: Nostalgia has long been a motif in Blewer's work, from the pastel hand-colored photographs for which she is best known to the collages that she began making during the pandemic shutdown. She's not sure why the past is so appealing. "It's like a memory that I don't have," Blewer said - In “At a Crossroad,” Victoria Blewer’s Collages Employ Nostalgia to Face the Future - via Seven Days
READ: Days of Future Passed presents a series of digital collages of images from Iff’s archive. The artist is continuously collecting photos from her daily life, the Internet, newspapers, and free image libraries, building a vast archive of organisms, structures, and scenes that pique her interest. In her collages, man-made structures collide with fungi, dead animals, insects and the cosmos - Days of Future Passed - Collecting photos from her daily life, the Internet, newspapers, and free image libraries, Swiss photographer Florence Iff amalgamates vast webs of organisms, structures, and scenes into a portrait of a planet in crisis - via lens culture
READ: My work is a collage of high/low, ranging from pop culture icons and images from my childhood and teens, to things I see around the city on walks or through searching online, but then I also reference images and themes from art history. In an abstract but methodical way I use my work as a way to think through feelings and relationships — in relation to myself and the world around me — so the symbols and characters in the work are really stand-ins for these dynamics - Gitte Maria Möller's abstract paintings are infused with 90s nostalgia - via i-D
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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Thank you for these roundups. I'm always inspired by the things you share.