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By Alec Clayton<\/p>\n

I recently wrote about collage artists Sharon Styer and Gail Ramsey Wharton for Oly Arts (see Creative Minds: The Collage Art of Sharon Styer and Gail Ramsey Wharton)<\/a>. Since writing that article, I have had additional thoughts about their work that I\u2019d like to share.<\/p>\n

Poet Isidore-Lucien Ducasse, writing under the nom de plume Comte de Lautr\u00e9amont, penned the line “as beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table,” and Andr\u00e9 Breton adopted that line as a guiding principle of Surrealism. The beauty of chance, and the strange wonder of juxtapositions of disparate objects. That is in essence a description of both Dada and Surrealism and of collage as medium and as a method of design. It has been paramount in the works of artists from Picasso and Braque to Duchamp, to Jasper Johns to David Salle. Collage, in fact, has been the design method of just about every art since Picasso and Braque first glued imitation wood grains into their paintings\u2014whether or not the actual gluing of paper or other materials is involved.<\/p>\n

Collage as a method of design is not hierarchical. There is no main character centerstage with smaller supporting cast off to the sides such as in the typical Renaissance triangular composition. Rather, all characters, images, shapes tend to be of equal value. Rules of perspective are often ignored. There are realistic images because the images tend to be taken from photographs ripped from the pages or newspapers and magazines, but the relationships of the various images are often unrealistic. Parts of bodies don\u2019t match. Background images may be larger than foreground images. Collages are narrative by nature, but the narratives are more implicit than explicit. If there are stories, they are stories with no logical beginning, middle and end.<\/p>\n

\"\"A collage from Gail Ramsey Wharton\u2019s \u201cFood for Thought\u201d series pictures an androgynous figure in an interior setting seated on an antique chair. There\u2019s something strange and comical about the figure, and about the entire scene. For starters, the figure\u2019s head is way too large for the body. And for quite some time I thought of the figure as a woman, but eventually noticed that her (or his) chest is bare and does not look like a woman\u2019s breast, and he\u2019s wearing long stockings and men\u2019s pointy-toed saddle oxford shoes. And there are things in that room that do not belong (as out of place as the sewing machine and umbrella on a dissecting table). He or she is eating an apple, there\u2019s a snake coiled around the chair leg, and there\u2019s a peeping Tom at the window who looks like popular images of Jesus. And then it dawns on me: it\u2019s Adam (or Eve) in the Garden of Eden, but the garden is a Victorian era bedroom, and if that\u2019s God watching over him or her, he\u2019s a very creepy god. Quite often art is both upsetting and funny.<\/p>\n

A friend of mine owns another Ramsey Wharton collage. It pictures a woman riding an ironing board as if it is a surfboard. I\u2019ve often enjoyed looking at it, but it only recently dawned on me that the artist\u2019s turn of mind in noticing that an ironing board is shaped like a surfboard and coming up with the quirky idea of putting a surfing woman on it is akin to the kind of thinking Picasso must have done when he combined a bicycle seat and handlebar to make a sculpture of a bull.<\/p>\n

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\nCollage artist Sharon Styer\u2019s \u201cWhat she really wanted was to just stop worrying\u201d is a languid, pastoral scene with a pair of lovers reclining on a bridge. The scene is a surrealistic mix of photographs and images cut from paintings. The landscape is a photograph\u2014all but the blue tree in the foreground, which is painted in a single, flat color, as are the clothes and the bodies of the man and woman. Pop Art images with a hint of Asian art. The man is clothed in a blue suit, and the woman is naked. Her flesh is purple. Even though her head and shoulders rest on his body, they seem unattached and uninterested in one another. The bridge they rest upon is an arch of something like a Japanese paper lantern. The bridge and the man and woman are gigantic in relation to the landscape. By comparison to the size of the bodies, the creek is a mere trickle only a few inches wide. No bridge should be needed to cross it.<\/p>\n

Much of the beauty of \u201cWhat she really wanted was to just stop worrying\u201d is in the movement of lines, the bend of the tree that mimics the shape of the bridge and the sensual lines of the people\u2019s bodies, particularly the position of their arms. Every edge, every line, directs the viewers\u2019 eyes in lyrical movement across the surface. And there are butterflies. There is clearly a story behind this picture. We want to know what they are doing and why, how they got there and what is going to happen next.<\/p>\n

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By Alec Clayton I recently wrote about collage artists Sharon Styer and Gail Ramsey Wharton for Oly Arts (see Creative Minds: The Collage Art of Sharon Styer and Gail Ramsey Wharton). Since writing that article, I have had additional thoughts about their work that I\u2019d like to share. Poet Isidore-Lucien Ducasse, writing under the nom … <\/p>\n

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