Foundation 4D 1 – G1

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Sandra Chevrier is a Canadian contemporary artist, known for her captivating collaged portraits of women from The Cages series.

what captivates me about this work is the gaze from the women. It has passed a strong message from her eyes which is women trying to find freedom from the imposed cages of society’s distorted prejudices and expectations of what a woman should or Read more →

Artist: Oleg Shuplyak Link: http://www.atbreak.com/tag/surrealism/

An Ukrainian artist living in Berezhany, Oleg Shuplyak creates artistic surrealism works, via usage of optical illusion. He is well known for imaginative portrait heads named Hidden Images. What captivates me about his work was that when viewing his artwork up close, it shows an image of a scenery, but when it in full portrait, it shows Read more →

Waldemar Strempler

Collage I DID 2013

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What captivates me in this collage is the destabilization of our perception of death. The expectation of a woman’s face (also in the mirror) being let down by the skeletal face replacing hers and her reflection implies that she is dead inside as skeletons typically symbolizes death. The rose in full bloom and the Read more →

California based filmmaker, illustrator, and vintage collage artist, Eugenia Loli puts narratives in her collages that kickstarts the viewer’s imagination to interpret her work. I enjoy her work because they are surreal and aesthetically pleasing.

Title: “Soft Kisses, Stinging Bites”

For this piece, the thing that stood out to me the Read more →

What captivates me about this work is how there is irony present. Despite the title indicating that time is lost, there is an abundance of clocks to tell the time everywhere, except that they are all telling different timings. We can also highlight the loss of direction, indicated by how common facts have been subverted. An example points at how Read more →

This art work is done by Jacques Villeglé, a French artist, best known for his torn collaged works. Jacques would paste multiple layers of posters and advertisments he has collected from the streets onto his canvas, before tearing away the layers to reveal a decollage artwork. In this artwork the torn posters reveals a man face in the middle. The deep set Read more →

Hannah Hoch, Balance, 1925

Hannah Hoch is German Dadaist who works extensively with collages and found images. What is interesting is the layers of readings suggested by the title Hoch has chosen. Firstly, the two figures are a conflation of elements from more than one gender, for example the body in a dress is matched with the head of a Read more →

This artwork, titled ‘radioactive’ created by Robert Rauschenberg caught my attention for its use for imagery and abstract elements, introduced by the artist.

Known for his use of the mixed media, this piece encapsulates the process of creating by deconstructing the inherent meaning of the image and juxtaposing it with odd and out-of-this world elements. In line with the aesthetic movement Read more →

Title: The Unknown Tragedy

Artist: Marcel Lisboa

What captivated me was how the artist manipulated images of nature, common objects and vintage images to create a surreal art piece that keeps the audience intrigued. Of which, the substitution of the face with the rose bouquet really drew my attention to the image as the rose bouquet stood out as the most prominent Read more →