King’s School London
In her painted collage work, predominantly, she creates imagined areas which depict deeply psychological spaces during which to explore. Artist Caro Halford creates eclectic and charged work, spanning from performance, video, sculpture, collage and photography. Most of all, Halford addresses women’s social and political issues, focusing on themes of feminine sexuality. In this example, the forty-eight stars and red and white stripes make up Johns’ American ‘Flag’. Initially, his use of such an unmistakable picture takes the element of design out of the art work, leaving only his use of fabric in focus. When checked out closely, the art work truly is made up of mixed panels and paint, surprisingly, with a base of collaged newspaper scraps. Importantly, the viewer is ready to make out dates on the newspaper scraps, this locates this image of a flag with a specific time.
Conrad Marca-Relli was a Boston-born painter and sculptor who belonged to the early technology of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists. Marca-Relli made a important breakthrough with large-scale collage work that regularly drew inspiration from the human type to create summary compositions of interlocking curves and angles. Kurt Schwitters was a German artist who was particularly influential within the …
