Curious Collage Creations by DadaDreams

Posted by: Kenneth Rougeau in Art & Artists, Collage

Michelle Lanter is a self-taught collage artist from Houston, Texas who creates imaginative & inventive collages with tongue set firmly to cheek. Michelle has had a lifelong love affair with paper & owns an ever-expanding collection of vintage ephemera including magazines, books & encyclopedias from the 1940′s, 50′s and 60′s.

"How I Spent My Summer Vacation"

"Morning Has Broken"

“I’m fascinated by squid, dinosaurs, medical imagery, and retro food. These images often find their way into my collage work,” says Lanter. “For me, collage is a form of play. I love to spread my ephemera (my toys) on the floor and rearrange them until an image comes together. I work intuitively and lose all track of time when I’m collaging.”

"Iguano-Don Draper"

"He Followed Me Home"

Michelle certainly breathes new life into these vintage images, combining them until they become new surreal works of art. “I collect many images and keep them in folders,” she says. “I have them categorized into animals, landscapes, people, and many other subjects. A series usually comes about when I take images from one of my folders and combine them with images from another folder.” “My inspiration comes from my collection of books and papers, and using them to express new or humorous ways of looking at life.”

"Heart In Hand"

"Photo Op"

Michelle has recently aquired several vintage recipe books chock full of colorful pictures. She plans to have a great deal of fun combining images of gelatin desserts with postcard landscapes. What fun!

"Heavenly Brew"

You’ll find more amazing collage art by
Michelle Lanter
at her website
http://www.dadadreams.com/

You can purchase many of these pieces at
DadaDreams on Etsy

and you’ll find even more images at
DadaDreams on Flickr

"Would You Care for Milk With That?"

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Jun

“And Salvador Dali tells us where the villain has hidden”

Posted by: Kenneth Rougeau in Art & Artists, Collage

Nikolas Tantsoukes creates cunningly crafted handcut paper collages featuring fractured characters and Kafkaesque cityscapes that put me in mind of film noir as seen in a funhouse mirror.

"The wicked uncle / You won`t laugh no more"

"...as a proof of his affection he would read to her his favorite poems every day..."

In his Stadtleben (City Life) series, Tantsoukes gives us a window into a shadowy other-verse with collage titles such as “The wicked uncle / You won`t laugh no more“, “Strange Behaviour” and “…as a proof of his affection he would read to her his favorite poems every day…“.

"...and she was determined to leave the city for good ..."

"... And Salvador Dali tells us where the villain has hidden ..."

“... And Salvador Dali tells us where the villain has hidden …” is part of Nikolas’ schwarze serie (black series), a collection of surrealistically twisted portraiture on black backgrounds. Serie orange (orange series) contains similairly surreal collage portraits, only on bright orange backgrounds.

"Strange Behaviour"

Nikolas Tantsoukes continues his unusual paper collage character creations in his latest series, “Come As You Are“, a set of vibrantly colorfuly images with a bizarre, but decidedly feminine feel to them. Titles include “Miss Lipstick“, “Beautyqueen“, and “”Nachtfalter” (“Moth”).