Collage is like the little girl with the curl in the middle of her forehead: “… when she was good, she was very, very good, but when she was bad, she was horrid.”
A collection of links to very, very good collage:
An excellent assortment of collages by Kurt Schwitters, Georges Braque, Mara Kurtz, Joseph Cornell, and more.
“Out of the Dark” by Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Schwitters at MOMA — in chronological progression.
Wangechi Mutu at the Saatchi Gallery. Striking and graphic.
Robert Nickle — images from the Art Institute 1979 exhibition and from the 1994 retrospective at University of Illinois. Low-key color schemes and other subtleties.
Georges Braque also uses low-key color schemes. This oil painting at MOMA seems to be a painting of a collage of text, whereas these three pieces are true collages. Oops, I see that the first and third of these four links don’t take you to the right images, and I can’t figure out how to get there. Just saying.
A word collage by Carlo Carra. Cool.
An awesome transition from collage to text art by Kurt Schwitters.
Glenys Mann, a fiber artist with great collage sense.
Jonathan Talbot — a few images from the now-defunct Orange County Arts Council, a few more of the Flamenco series, and a few more from the Patrin series.