Mia Mäkilä is a Swedish artist who creates dark and disturbing images, on in her words, horror art & collages. Her work has influences of Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the elder, Francisco de Goya, Johann Heinrich Fuseli, Frida Kahlo and René Magritte, David Lynch, Ingmar Bergman, Michael Haneke, John Waters and Tim Burton, among others.

I paint my demons. I paint nightmares. To get rid of them. I paint my fears. I paint my sorrow. To deal with them. The motifs of my artworks are scary and macabre, but they also have a dark sense of humour. I love to use humour in a weird and strange way. You can see that in my artworks with the women who's shitting stars and fire. I call my artworks "neo-victorian horror art", because of the haunting quality from the victorian era I use in them. The style is nightmarish and dark, like a language of my inner demons and my sorrow. They are also inspired by the Lowbrow art movement.

She has a new blog The Wonderland of Mia Mäkilä, where she shares paintings, news, videos, curiosities and vintage things, in Swedish, By the way, the site and the blog are NSFW, but of course it depends of where you work. (via Hugo Strikes Back)

Posted by Bibi on September 15, 2007 05:06 PM in Art, Collage ||

When someone makes a fabulous work, as Peter Clark does, even collages of dogs can get my attention. Peter uses a comprehensive collection of found papers as his palette which are coloured, patterned or textured by their printed, written or worn surfaces, with this media he 'paints' his collages.[...] His pieces use mark-making in an innovative and humorous way to create a collection of beasts and clothing which exude character and wit. (via The Seven Deadly Sinners)

Posted by Bibi on March 15, 2007 12:11 PM in Art, Collage ||

Gilbert Garcin: French photographer, French artist. Garcin born in La Ciotat in 1929 and lives in Marseille taking pictures, creating photo-montages, collages, art. His image in those pictures is a constant, as a picture, a shadow or a multiple of himself. He is the character that gives the motto to the pictures, while he plays with backgounds, textures, symbols, allegories and photo titles. (via PCL LinkDump)

Posted by Bibi on January 23, 2007 08:02 AM in Collage, Photography, Photography ||

Art-e-zine: Welcome to artezine, this online zine is for everyone that's interested in playing and having fun with paper, paints, inks and stamps, and any other exciting mediums. Due to the huge number of pages, I suggest start exploring the site for the new stuff page. Other idea is explore all the links at contents - many of them go to external pages. And my last suggestion, if you are not in the mood for collage, but wants to see vintage images, go to the Vintage resources page.

Posted by Bibi on June 14, 2006 01:57 PM in Art, Collage, Vintage ||

The French artist Gerard Bertrand has a new series of collages about literature after L'Album de Franz Kafka. His new photomontages L'Album de Marcel Proust, as the title says is related to Proust's life and works. He says about the work of "recomposed photographs" : I tried, in this series to restore the spirit of this period of time as well as the spirit of the characters from "In Search of Lost Time - A la recherché du temps perdu". I associated those spirits to Proust, the narrator and­ the author. Very nice work with a vintage atmosphere.

Posted by Bibi on January 18, 2006 07:31 PM in Art, Collage ||

If you live at Bruxelles here is a good option of activity: go to the Galerie Pascal Polar and visit the current exhibition Karl Waldmann & Constructivisme Russe. This German artist made more than 900 works dating from 1915 to the 50’s, most of which are collages or photomontages.

His early pieces are abstract but soon after, his other works turn to echo constructivism, Dadaism and even surrealism.
The forms derived from constructivism, with a destruction of the classical image, VERB! in a dynamic vision. But the state of mind of the photomontages is close to the Dadaists by the will of integration of the social facts of his time in an acid and politic vision.

There is an online version of the exhibition here. More information about him can be found at Karl Waldmann Museum, including his works.

Posted by Bibi on January 2, 2006 11:54 PM in Art, Collage ||

Hillegon Brunt creates some disturbing photo collage images, with images of people and animals. He has also some works of sculptures (papier maché sculptures with photos), drawings and paintings. (via Pez)

Posted by Bibi on November 11, 2005 08:42 PM in Art, Collage ||

Take a look on the colourful and pretty creations of Jovi Schnell - paintings, drawings with collage and wall works. (via CoLLaGeMaNíA)

Posted by Bibi on September 8, 2005 07:52 AM in Art, Collage, Painting ||

Paul Watson is a talented artist that makes nice assemblages, drawings, other mixed media artwork and texts. His latest work principia discordia is a limited series of 100 collages, each one hand-numbered, on 9 by 12 inches (229 x 305 mm) Bockingford Board and they are available to pre-order. Read about the process of his creation on this thread in the discussion forum, where there is an off topic discussion about cats (sure I liked it).

PS.: I think that Johnny suggested the the lazarus corporation site some time ago.

Posted by Bibi on August 22, 2005 04:41 PM in Collage ||

Gtung Creative Collages: a nice work of collages using pictures of NASA and ESO as background in a good resolution. (Thanks Johnny!)

Posted by Bibi on August 11, 2005 11:33 PM in Collage ||

Pretty Vintage Images for your artwork with some partial nudes (this is an advice), and collages made with vintage pictures here, here and here. (via Life In The Present)

Posted by Bibi on July 31, 2005 05:50 AM in Collage, Photography, Photography, Vintage ||

Franz Kafka , "l'Album" de Gérard Bertrand. Collages by Bertrand with Kafka pictures, creating a fictional Kafka's album with scenes related on his books. (CoLLaGeMaNíA)

Posted by Bibi on July 29, 2005 01:54 AM in Collage ||

Two new interesting blogs about collage:

Scrapiteria is a colaborative blog with works of Angelica Paez, Paul Jackson and Michael Leigh.

Curios Things - Un blog comic in inglese e l'italiano per gli amanti di tutto il goonish di cose, sconosciuto, dispari, bizzarro e piú perculier. (both via MetaFilter)

Posted by Bibi on July 21, 2005 09:48 PM in Blogs, Collage ||

Viktor Koen: paintings, digital collages, photomontage, prints and a great portfolio with many magazine covers.

Koen's creatures are created by manipulating vintage photographs, depicting upper-class males and fusing them with various monstrous or mechanical insects that bring to mind the surreal photomontages of Raoul Housman or Hannah Hoch from the 20's and 30's. The knowledge and application of these prototypes of mature modernism along with the use of contemporary scientific-mythology, render his work scholarly and multilayered.

(via male.dei)

Posted by Bibi on July 19, 2005 07:29 PM in Collage, Painting ||

Sebastian Wahl creates some very nice compositions of collages with pop artists from music and cinema. (via CoLLaGeMaNíA)

Posted by Bibi on July 14, 2005 07:14 PM in Collage ||

Zaelia Bishop has a very nice work of paintings, collage and photography. (via male.dei)

Posted by Bibi on July 6, 2005 10:18 AM in Collage, Painting, Photography, Photography ||

WarpArt - The Collage Art Of Peter Lewis.

His works resemble a kaleidoscope of color with swirling images cascading in all directions, defying gravity and challenging the viewer to make sense of this topsy-turvy world that his compositions evoke.

(via SnarkySpot)

Posted by Bibi on June 16, 2005 10:26 AM in Collage ||

Mia Friedrich photo-based art. The artist has a very nice work of collage and manipulation on photos. I believe a picture should be an energy container. (via Vigna-Marú)

Posted by Bibi on June 14, 2005 03:41 AM in Collage ||

María Isabel Arango, graduated in Graphic Design, has a very nice work of digital and hand-made collage. With "innocence", "sketches", "tales", "marioneta real" and "stop killing animals" as subjects her work is inspired by the attitude of people with old style aesthetics. (via neurastenia)

Posted by Bibi on June 7, 2005 03:14 AM in Collage, Illustration ||