Cut and Paste by Charlie White

 ·      Collage never completely left contemporary art practices; an aesthetic language that has been used in the past three decades

·      It was created a post-war response that not only allows for the creator and viewer to respond to visual information but can make groups of other information accessible

·      The Dada’s also embraced collage (after cubism) to use it as photomontage, and would have a visual flexibility that allowed for play as well as commentary. They used it as a political statement, but because of the nature of collage it was still ambiguous

·      After the 60’s the technological boom occurred into the 90’s and the turn into the 00’s: the internet was born that opened up many different visual facets that allowed for play and the combining and removal and recreation of visual imagery

·      With the internet, photomontage and visual representation through collage has reached a new high where the focus can be switched and turn the viewer into a consumer of popular culture. The article uses the example of the teenager and how they use collage for “…individual desire.. through appropriation of popular images…”

·      Artist responded to this by appropriating both contemporary use of image as well as the older forms of collage to create their own personal balance between the two. They could challenge it through a 2-D visual layering process such as painting, where no objects are even added just illustrated, or just a piling of images like on used in Photoshop. Collage has developed into a language beyond the compilation of image; it has a multiplicity of meanings that allow the art form to grow with each time period