Chapter 4 | WORKS OF ART

Terry Gilliam, director of the famous English comedy series Monty Python, often used surreal collages as a starting point for animations.

The Swiss artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) made collages of all kinds of (waste) materials. Schwitters was in this collage probably mainly concerned with colour: earth tones (such as sand) with accents of red and blue and a touch of green.

In 1914, the Italian Futurist Carra (1881-1966) made this complicated collage of tickets, newspaper fragments etc. that appear to revolve around each other in circles.

The pop art artist Richard Hamilton (1922-2011) made a collage about the attractive everydayness of a modern living room in the 1950s. The depth effect/perspective in this precisely executed collage is very ingenious.

Some artists like to deceive our eyes. The last image is a so called ‘Trompe l’oeuil’ (eye deceiver): it looks like a collage but it is painted entirely, in such a skillful way that it really looks like a collage, including the torn edges around the female figure.