Category Archives: Fall 2018 Archive (201)

History of Collage & Photomontage: Emmalina Krist

Clover Robin is an English artist that uses elements and principles of design to replicate her surroundings while traveling into small collages. On her road trips, Robin presumably does not have access to methods for altering photos digitally, so she … Continue reading

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History of Collage & Photomontage: Milo Larson

The artist, Jiyen Lee, creates mesmerizing digital photographs by repeating and overlapping photos of walkways. This unique style of digital art can confuse the viewer because of the seamless transition between the layers. At first glance, you are unable to … Continue reading

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History of Collage & Photomontage: Deyanira Tovar-Moreno

Randy Grskovic was an artist from Vancouver who released a set of geometric collages. More specifically, Grskovic released a set of geometric collages in which he would use pieces of photographs as his main feature. The photos used in his … Continue reading

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History of Collage and Photomontage: Seth Muck

  When looking through the collages within the class readings, none of them stood out to me in particular at first. I loved Sophie Standings Rhino and was amazed to find it was done with fabrics, but It didn’t feel … Continue reading

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Blog 2: History of Collage & Photomontage – Shawn Stephens

Mathieu Borel takes vintage photos and fractures them, then arranges them in multiple ways to create a single cohesive image. It’s really interesting to me that he is able to take just a single photograph and make it into a … Continue reading

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History of Collage and Photomontage: Wyatt Nevins

Combining the photorealistic with the surreal, German artist Matthias Jung creates portraits through collage. Using a combination of scissors, glue and paper images drawn from architecture and the natural world Jung crafts landscapes that are half reality, half dreamscape. As … Continue reading

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History ofCollage & Photomontage: Bethany Smyth

I chose the artist Laurent Chhre. Laurent Chhre has a series of surrealistic collages of houses floating in the sky, called Flying Houses. Earlier in his collection Chhre’s work is more obvious with people living out their daily lives within the houses … Continue reading

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History of Collage & Photomontage: Leah Henry

The piece I decided to reflect on is by a Korean artist named Jiyen Lee. Born in 1979, Lee attained a Bachelor of Fine arts from Hong-Ik University in 2005. She then went on to study at Goldsmiths, University of … Continue reading

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History of Collage & Photomontage: Emily Burns

When choosing an artist to focus on I was drawn to Luisa Azevedo’s art piece. Azevedo uses Photoshop to create her photomontages. Luisa is 20 years-old and has grown up in the same generation as I did. Through Luisa’s artwork, … Continue reading

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History of Collage & Photomontage: Andy Snow

The art piece that I decided to reflect on was Rosalyn Drexler’s The Dream (1963). I chose this picture because I have learned about pop art in the past and have enjoyed trying to mimic its elements and principles. The … Continue reading

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