Collage

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.