Joan Miro has an interesting way of creating artwork. Instead of actually making the image, Miro uses images from advertisements and other sources. Using conte crayon, these seemingly unrelated pieces are combined together to make an entirely different images. In some cases the new image is an entirely different world. Some of the images look like an animated world with flat blocks of color. Most of Miro's work is abstract. A series of postcards made by Miro back in the 1930s have gone relatively unnoticed in the art world today. Part of this might be due to the fact that the work itself comes from other things. Collage receives criticism at times because it does not necessarily show a something that the artist created. Even though they put pieces together, the source of the images can at times make it seem inferior. However, collage has a major benefit for the entire art world. It give artists the ability to do and see things that otherwise would not have been possible. Its greatest strength is that it opens new doors and windows of understanding. There is no art that is completely original anymore. While this work take more than other work does, it opens new channels of thought and ideas that could significantly advance art.
Ryan,
Have you read any Nicolas Bourriaud? He is a French art theorist and critic. He believes that collage was the precursor to digital media. He relates the pieces combined in collage to the way we think when using digital technologies and digital technologies in the art making process. You may find him interesting.
-Robin
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