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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."
Porphyry, On 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