Artists often over cook things. I guess it’s hard to know when a piece is finished when you don’t exactly know how it started and what you’d hoped for.
Cat Sims’ intricate line drawings allow the viewer to play paint-by-numbers with their mind… once they’ve worked out what exactly it is that they’re looking at. Birds [...]
posted: March 28th, 2010 |
by: tomagotchi |
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Under the moniker of Middle Boop, designer extraordinaire Gordon Reid takes images old and new and cuts, slices, pastes and..um… saves to .jpg
the results are lovely. abstract collages full of the wonders of childhood wartime aspirations and the galaxy.
his work has graced the pages of Macworld & Digital Arts magazines, and Juxtapoz &
Rough Trade’s websites [...]
posted: December 14th, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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The only info I can find on Miss Bugs‘ website is a quote from Pablo Picasso
“If there is something to steal, I steal it!”
And in a way, that’s all the info we need. Miss Bugs’ work takes iconic imagery from pop culture and art history and reforms it using collage and technique. I particularly like [...]
posted: December 8th, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: collage, graphiti, hirst, miss bugs, mondriaan, paint, pastiche, spin
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when we were walking through hyde park on sunday afternoon towards the serpentine gallery, lady worthington confessed. she admitted that she didn’t quite get jeff koons’ work. and whilst i didn’t express it at the time, neither did i.
take the below piece (let’s call it ‘doggy paddle’). on first glance, or when viewing online you [...]
posted: September 9th, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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after researching jim lambie, it appears that his usual creative out-put centers around themes such as brightly coloured taping of floors, and installations of trash/treasure including the kitchen sink. however a recent collection of work has surfaced from mr lambie, which features old chinese oil paintings of floral arrangements, cut up and layered over pop-culture [...]
posted: May 28th, 2009 |
by: lady worthington |
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| tags: Add new tag, art, artist, collage, flowers, grace jones, jesus and the mary chain, jim lambie, junk, lambie, stevie nicks, the found painting flower series, trash
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Norwegian are mokkelbost is the man behind the collage insanity that is ION.
i initially thought that he was yet another photoshop wizard, but further investigation on his site b-o-r-g.org lead me to realize that he spends a whole lot of time with scissors and glue.
these pieces took over three years to produce. the result is [...]
posted: May 23rd, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: collage, cut up, danish, ion, scissors
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