Yesterday I saw a friend, Gregg, who I've barely seen since we worked together at the art college library. (I left in 2001). Gregg had told me years ago about a found-materials collage artist who became one of my favorite artists, Kurt Schwitters.
And yesterday Gregg told me about collage artist Anne Ryan (1889–1954).
I looked up her work, loved it, and noticed that while the Metropolitan Museum of Art mounted an exhibit of her art in 2010, The Prismatic Eye, Ryan includes threads and fabric in her collage--a little unusual for the fine-arty collage genre.
I looked further, and read:
this student, a print maker, told me that when people asked him what he was working on, he always said,
"I'm generating collage material."
That covered every contingency:
if he didn't like what he made, he cut it up to re-use.
Many of Ryan's piece are quite small, which makes them more intriguing and inviting to me---this one is about 6 in. x 5 in.:
And yesterday Gregg told me about collage artist Anne Ryan (1889–1954).
I looked up her work, loved it, and noticed that while the Metropolitan Museum of Art mounted an exhibit of her art in 2010, The Prismatic Eye, Ryan includes threads and fabric in her collage--a little unusual for the fine-arty collage genre.
I looked further, and read:
"Anne Ryan didn’t start making collages until she was 58 . . . in 1948. Her components were often recycled, showing signs of their original use.That reminds me of something an art student told me that I've always cherished:
[Her daughter] McFadden said that her mother saved old dish towels to use in collages. “When something in the house got old, acquired by wear a ‘feel,’ and to the usual person was ready for the trash can, we would say,
‘Now it‘s getting to the collage stage.’”
--Via
this student, a print maker, told me that when people asked him what he was working on, he always said,
"I'm generating collage material."
That covered every contingency:
if he didn't like what he made, he cut it up to re-use.
Many of Ryan's piece are quite small, which makes them more intriguing and inviting to me---this one is about 6 in. x 5 in.:
