The clash between the surreal and the real. Between hard edge and realism. Between the painting and photograph. How much of our world is real? The squirrels and the flooded basements.
by David Halliday
The clash between the surreal and the real. Between hard edge and realism. Between the painting and photograph. How much of our world is real? The squirrels and the flooded basements.
by David Halliday
Ms. Thorne-Thomson uses a pin-hole camera and collages to create some interesting images. It is as in the beginning of photography (the 19th Century) the world was surreal.
Like many collage artists Mahr’s work seems to be drenched in metaphor. They are like poems written by someone who has lost themselves in adolescent loneliness. Her pain is so acute that its depiction is forbidden and so she focuses on objects around her. They reflect some insight so private that it must not be spoken. And I must confess, it bores me. Ask to explain the difference between art that is great or modest, I would say modest art never overcomes itself because it is too busy drawing attention to how important it is.
The automobile has been one of the symbols of sexuality in the 20th century. Next to the cigarette it has been used as a prop for romance.
by David Halliday
A story is very important to me. Especially with collages I call ‘fictional photographs’, giving life to places, people, times that did not exist in our reality.
by David Halliday
Hugnet was part of the surrealist movement in the 30s. He was later expelled from the group. In a lot of his work he seems preoccupied with females. But he does little with the form. Like a lot of early collages, his work appears frantic, slapped down in a hurry to give an impression of a lack of concentrated thought. As if the images did not come from intelligence but impulse.
I get bored easily. Even when I’m working on a piece. So I hide things. In the work. Something out of place. Out of nowhere.
by David Halliday
She was a flapper. Spoiled, rich, and talented she did everything to excess. But like Daisy in “The Great Gatsby”, is there anything there?
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