Archive for the ‘Various & Sundry’ Category

Various and Sundry Scraps ~ No.4

Saturday, September 7th, 2019

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

• Scottish National Gallery: Challenging the customary timeline of collage.

• Sabine Remy’s talk about her collage-a-day residency in Georgia.

• Teri Dryden’s art is rooted in collage and never left it behind.

• Investigate this open submission collage competition.

• And now, for only the most hopeless of Schwitters devotees.

My thanks to everyone responsible for all the content at these links.

Various and Sundry Scraps ~ No.3

Thursday, December 27th, 2018

• Litch’s ‘Manifesto” — good, unpretentious stuff from a working artist.
• Save this link to keep an eye on Plastikcomb, or to submit content.
• Everything one could want to know about Merzbau.

• Fascinating, even if you don’t understand German. Pay particular attention
to the correct pronunciation of Schwitters and Merzbild.

• Appreciating KS as a hero of the mind.

My thanks to everyone responsible for the outstanding content at these links.

Various and Sundry Scraps ~ No.2

Saturday, October 6th, 2018

• Collage is painting, so Cinta can inform and inspire collage.
• Many of us wanted to stow ourselves in Teri’s art-supply case.
• I’ve lost count of all the things I admire about Sheldon’s artistry.
• Cecil: The “spectacularness” of the harmony of all things.
• The opposite of collage — two solid hours of Wesley at work.

My thanks to everyone who created these featured videos.

Various and Sundry Scraps ~ No.1

Thursday, April 26th, 2018

• Don’t we all want to be Cecil when we grow up?
• There was a time when Merz was deemed degenerate.
• Destruction of the Merzbau and the human toll in Hannover.
• Kurt Schwitters and his fellow artists in captivity.
• How synthetic cubism led to collage as a modern art.

Thanks to The Kurt Schwitters Society for sharing several of these links.