While showing a visitor around the house, Mr. Carle lamented that the concrete wasn't as smooth as it might have been, but then he warmed up to the surfaces' collage-like qualities.
This art historical trend flourished in the Post-WWII visual culture, as artists including Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, George Herms, Robert Rauschenberg, and Betye Saar, embraced collage for its qualities of the mass-produced and the vernacular, as well as the fact of its intended contents, formulating social critique from as eclectic an array of sources as one might imagine.
A fine artist making her debut in children's literature, Holmes' work is both grounding and transcendent, somehow taking the tactile qualities of collage and paint and infusing them with the otherworldly glow of a stained glass window.
Marlowe, who is in the first division of British actresses, has a brave, nervy quality; in a collage of scenes from several Williams short stories, she expertly dissects the playwright's hysterical women.
Collage gave her paintings a tactile quality and an engagement with the world outside the art studio, but she also practised in the more traditional and characteristically English medium of watercolour.
Though it sounds nerdish to say that Ms. Bregazzi and Mr. Thornton treated the body as a canvas, their cutout dresses — in solids as well as print collages — nonetheless have a second-skin quality.
De Kooning could get this disjointed quality using pure paint, but collage accomplishes it by its very nature.
But lest this sound limiting, I should note that several works incorporate collage elements, giving them a three-dimensional quality.
But what really hooks you is the gradual appreciation that the collages have an explosive, yet paradoxically serene, quality to them.
I was surprised by the reverential quality of many of the books: collage was clearly used in a form of homage to the literary works they appended.
