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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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