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― Amy Leigh Mercree
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READ: Picabia’s work Tableau Rastadada is a self-deprecating portrait of the artist himself. According to the chief curator of drawings and prints at the MoMA, Christophe Cherix, the work is Picabia’s first photo collage. Collages and photomontages were important techniques of the Dada movement - 8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness - via The Collector
READ: Artistic collage creation, a field deeply intertwined with human artistry, has sparked interest in artificial intelligence (AI). The challenge arises from the need to move beyond mere collage imitations generated by existing AI tools like DALL-E and StableDiffusion - Revolutionizing Digital Art: Researchers at Seoul National University Introduce a Novel Approach to Collage Creation Using Reinforcement Learning - via Marktechpost
READ: Ten years after her death, a selection of Turbeville’s oeuvre is on display in Lausanne, Switzerland in “Photocollage” at Photo Elysée. This new show includes not only her magazine editorials but also her experimental photo montages - Unconventional Depictions of Fashion and Beauty Define Deborah Turbeville’s Archive - via Observer
READ: Shitanda chose to study architecture but started playing around with his father’s old cameras and his own Samsung camera phone during university, soon combining photography, collage and painting to develop mixed media works, and more recently experimenting with sculpture, textiles and film - Muyaka Shitanda — Mixed media artworks reflecting the joy and pain of living - via WePresent
READ: “THE END OF ANHEDONIA” Via therapeutic hypnosis, a man travels through his subconscious to try to find his inner child—and a way to be happy again. A comic that doesn’t look like any other comic ever made, this issue is done in full collage art by the spectacular ALEX ECKMAN-LAWN—a veritable dream in four colors. The end is almost here; this is just one of many SWAN SONGS - Collage Comics: Previewing The Boundary-Pushing ‘Swan Songs’ #5 - via Comicon
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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