What's Happening on the Back ... BUT What's Happening on the Front?

I didn't post images as large as I usually do but if you click on each image it does get larger.

I created this collage from things that were just sitting on my work table.

 

BANKSY and the ART of DECEPTION

 Found on the internet: Banksy uses deception primarily through his consistent anonymity and clever, unexpected artistic stunts, such as the self-shredding painting after an auction, to comment on the art world and society. This tactic makes him an enigma, fuels media attention, and allows him to control his narrative, though it also creates issues with authentication and opens the door for fakes.

I had fun making these three ATCs ala Banksy.

(The brick background is from the last bit of a sheet of 'scrapbooking' paper I purchased years ago and I had JUST enough to create 3 ATCs in the correct measurements!)

FREE for ALL

This is the page I decided to create a collage on (I referenced this quote when I chose Free for All as a theme). A couple of the images are from an auction catalogue of collectible "Outsider" or self-taught  artists. It was fun to make. I hope you like it.

BIG & little

 Yes, that is the Grand Canyon. What's going on?

I dunno. I found the cute little man. Then I cut out the huge purple chair.

I needed a background so I thought I would go LARGER than the chair.

The World of DREAM

 

Collector Henri Matisse...

I was browsing through an art book and found this photo of Henri Matisse tending to his collection of exotic birds which he purchased from Paris merchants who were selling caged birds along the Seine. Reportedly starting in the summer of 1936, his love for birds remained throughout his life and surely the doves and songbirds he so enjoyed influenced his later cut-out creations.

HEARTS & FLOWERS = True Love (or at least a good kiss!)

 I have some good books to cut up that deal with L O V E. The doves were originally carrying love letters and the window appeared partially open and had panes and a lace curtain (which I obviously got rid of). I found the kissing couple in another book and added the heart to her necklace as well as the floating vibes those two are giving off. I felt like I had to explain because I think the finished product totally looks like a found image and not something I put together. ha ha

Professions/Work/Occupations: Portrait of Horace and Holly Baum, Tree Surgeons

 

ABSTRACT to the MAX ATCs

 So much fun, I had to make three instead of one!

Betty DEARLY LOVED her PET Vampire Bat Barney...

...and commissioned a portrait she proudly hung in the living room, baffling her two newest pets (Oriental shorthair cats) who seemed to resemble Barney in a curious way! (Look up the breed...those ears!!)
 

MOVE It or LOSE It

While some may find a stroll in nature with an occasional stop to smell the roses a "moving" pastime, there is nothing like a session of "air cycling" to get the old blood flowing!

"Here Comes Summer" thanks to three artists who created paintings around the same era

I decided to try something I have always wanted to do. I found three paintings, all oil on canvas and all created around the same era. The background and figures definitely all go together!

Background: "Meadow in Bloom" ca. 1935 by Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867-1947)

*Women: "Dancing Girls on Carmel Beach" ca. 1930 by Arthur Frank Mathews (American, 1860-1945)

Girl & duck: "Feeding the Ducks" 1912 by Elmer Livingston MacRae (American, 1875-1953)

*The painting of the girls dancing on the beach is, of course, in color and is quite beautiful. But I only had an image of the painting in black & white.

QUIET is the WORD in an Octopus's Garden

 I have house guests this weekend into next week so I thought I would collage today!

AND these days "I'D LIKE TO BE UNDER THE SEA..."

By the way, the girl is from a painting by Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) entitled "The Screen Porch" 1964. I used another portion of the painting in a collage I made this past March for The Kollage Kit entitled "Happy Camper". This young lady has been sitting on my worktable looking for a place in one of my creations!

REPETITIVE art that is out of this world!

Upper left: "Pal-Ket" circa 1973 by Victor Vasarely (1906-1997)

Upper right: "Bird, Fish" 1961 by M.C. Escher (1898-1972)

Lower left: "Three Flags" 1958 by Jasper Johns (1930- )

Lower right: Untitled sculpture 1969 by Donald Judd (1928-1994)

Middle: "Arithmetic Composition" 1929 by Theo Van Doesburg (1883-1931)

FREE for ALL -- Portrait of Andromeda

 

To the MAX ... TOO MANY TEDDIES!

 I GOOGLED "Teddy Bear Collectors" and read this:

The largest collection of teddy bears is 20,367 items and was achieved by Istvánné Arnóczki (Hungary) in Harsány, Hungary, on 27 April 2019.

As a child, Arnóczki grew up in poverty and never owned a teddy bear. Her dream was to have one that she could cuddle at night. She bought her first ever teddy bear in 1978, when she was in her twenties, and never stopped buying more!

Her personal collection, now made up of items she has purchased and received as donations, is stored in the Teddy Museum her local village in Hungary.

So, although I could not possibly fit that many in one collage, I like to think this is what one wall of her living area might have looked like before she housed the collection.

What's that Sound???

Music to my ears.

(Discovered Joni Mitchell in 1970, will never tire of listening to her.)

YE OLDEN DAYS ...

Photograph (removed from a book published in 1972)

 of 200-year-old Red Pines with fire scars created almost 100 years ago.

Women wearing the fashion of 1873 (correlating to the date of the fire scars).

Interesting how the fashions appear so dated yet nature remains the same to our eyes.

 

For Twiggy, LAUGHTER was the best medicine after all the stress of high fashion modeling...

 I wanted to find a picture of someone laughing heartily and Twiggy was my pick!

OPPOSITES

 Although the Smith Brothers looked alike,

their character traits and behaviors could not be more opposite.