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Showing posts with label Collage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Collage. Show all posts

Sunday, 22 September 2019

Precision and Soul

Robert Michel - Propeller-Wind - 1918–1919

John Covert - Ex Act - 1919

Pierre Fix-Masseau - Exactitude - 1929

Friday, 16 November 2018

Thursday, 30 August 2018

Deceptions

Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts - Trompe-l’oeil - second half of 17th century.jpg

Samuel Lewis - A Deception - ca. 1805-1808

Iurii Annenkov - Relief-Collage - 1919

Tuesday, 26 August 2014

Life becomes fascinated

"Art begins with abstract decoration, with purely imaginative and pleasurable work dealing with what is unreal and non-existent. This is the first stage. Then Life becomes fascinated with this new wonder"
Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying, 1891

Arno Auer - Newspaper cut-ups - 2011

Ilya Bolotowsky - Untitled - 1950

Nikolai Suetin - Dynamics in Suprematism - 1921

Monday, 30 July 2012

Aleksei Kruchenykh - His one concern was for the idea

"...he misjoined his words; he cared nothing about spelling; his one concern was for the idea: in these habits, to our general surprise, he remained unchanged to the very end."
PorphyryOn the Life of Plotinus and the Arrangement of his Work, translated by Stephen MacKenna


Aleksei Kruchenykh - Chetyre Foneticheskikh Romana - 1927


Aleksei Kruchenykh - Universal War - 1916


Aleksei Kruchenykh - Valia Zdanevich - 1923


Aleksei Kruchenykh - Zamaul'II - 1919


Aleksei Kruchenykh - Zaum' - 1921


Aleksei Kruchenykh - Zaumniki - 1921

Sunday, 29 July 2012

Karel Teige - Dancing About Architecture

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture” 
Frank Zappa
(Or was it Elvis Costello?)

Karel Teige - Untitled - 1947


Karel Teige - collage #25 - 1936


Karel Teige and Jaroslav Rössler - Les Mamelles De Tyresias - 1926