October 27th, 2009
I Heart… Miss Dior’s Collages
Collage is a medium that’s always stayed with me over the years. It’s just one of those processes that you pick up early on – cutting out pictures from the newspaper and from catalogues and pasting them all together – and that’s very easy to get into. I think because I’m such a visual person, being bombarded with so many images at once really spoke to me. I just love the organic, free spirit behind it, and I always have.i There are no constraints, no rules to follows. It’s just pure artistic expression spilling out onto the page/canvas/screen/whatever have you. It’s primitive yet sophisticated and complex. There’s no need for order, symmetry, balance, form… you simply let it all run wild, shapeless, assymetrical, exploding off the page in whatever direction pleases you. That’s half the fun. It’s practically required of it!
That’s not to say fussing and careful consideration of elements and their position, colours, sizes, etc., are completely irrelevant. All I’m saying is allow yourself to be free and completely unrestrained by boundaries and something uniquely beautiful will be born. I think this is quite true of Miss Dior’s collage work. Her pieces are so elaborate and crammed pack with fashion-image-y goodness, it’s hard to know where to look first. There’s so much to take in, but everything is so strategically pieced together that even with bits and pieces coming at you from all angles, her work stays cohesive.
I HIGHLY recommend you check out her website, Miss Dior Couture, to view her collages full size. The above images are shrunken down a lot (*shakes fist at Flickr*), and her work is even more remarkable at the proper scale. Plus, there’s eye candy a-plenty there.
(Images via Miss Dior Couture)
- And actually, even now, you’ll see a lot of influence and reference to collage in the majority of my forays into graphic and web design. (»)
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I really cannot stop staring at them. They’re so beautiful and complex and lovely and just… ♥.
Aw, I’m sure you’re much better at it than you think. :) Art is in the eye of the beholder, non. (Shh, I’m allowed to change sayings. :P)
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