Behold: the ethereal hypercollages of Canadian artist Ysabel LaMay – each composed of hundreds of merged photographs weaving fragments of plants, animals, and elements into “panoramas of natural splendour”.
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Inspired by the large scale paintings of American artist Chuck Close, Mary Ellen Croteau uses recycled bottle caps (in their original colours) to create collaged portraits.
Objets D’Art
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UK-based artist Jane Perkins recreates classical artworks and photo portraits using thousands of found objects from LEGO bricks to buttons, beads, shells and plastic toys.
All components retain their original colour and are carefully chosen to match the palette of the work or photo.
The art is in their meticulous placement.
Collage artist Mark Wagner sets to work on the US dollar bill. Sez he:
Anarchists are certain that I’m an anarchist because I cut up a favorite tool of the oppressor. Capitalists think I am a capitalist because I revel in it.
Details from Sleepless Wonderland by Shanghai artist Yang Yongliang, whose massive photographic collages look like traditional Chinese landscape paintings from a distance but, viewed close up, reveal dystopias of industrialisation and urban sprawl.
MORE: excepts from three new collections of Yongliang’s work at Galerie Paris-Beijing, where an exhibition opens next month.
Halloween Night Collages (Pan’s Labyrinth, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, American Psycho and Ghostbusters) by Patrick Seymour.
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Voting With Your Pocketbook – a new work by US artist Mark Wagner.
Wagner’s currency collages (all, like zombie-ass Romney and Obama above, composed entirely of snippets taken from one dollar bills) are something to behold.
See them here.
An all-Apple digital collage of Steve Jobs created for Fortune magazine by Charis Tsevis – not his first homage to Mr Keynote.
Check out the eye-boggling 6656 x 6656 original. Give it a minute. It’s bigger than Apple’s balance sheet.