{"id":2184,"date":"2012-07-15T07:22:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T07:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cubicmuse.com\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2012-09-20T12:38:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T12:38:20","slug":"smile-collage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cubicmuse.com\/?p=2184","title":{"rendered":"Smile Collage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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deKooning collages the mouth from this Camel cigarette ad to his 1950 painting Woman.<\/p><\/div>\n

While researching artists who use collage, I was intrigued to see how American Abstract Expressionist Willem deKooning incorporated elements from ads into his paintings. The addition of a mass-reproduced smile (from a rather grotesque cigarette ad) makes the face in the painting above a little more mask-like. The intrusion of a foreign element complicates the charming spontaneity of the figure, as realism and abstraction collide in a jarring hybrid image.<\/p>\n

I challenged myself to make my own smile collage. This is what I came up with.<\/p>\n

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Ed McKean. Smile, 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

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Could an abstract construction be a face? A mask? Or are the colours and forms just happy to be together? Hope this collage makes you smile.<\/p>\n

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