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The Flow of Memory in Collage
Published on 2011-07-05 17:06:05
Man was made for joy and woe; And when this we rightly know; Through the world we safely go. - William Blake > read more
Stars & Stripes of RetroCollage
Published on 2011-06-30 23:03:55
Art of RetroCollage wishes you and yours a safe and happy Fourth of July weekend! New artwork: Stars & Stripes Of RetroCollage (2011). Digital collage created & copyright © by Eric Edelman. > read more
Star of Gratitude: Houston, We Have PageRank!
Published on 2011-06-28 10:26:21
Dear RetroCollage readers, While Art of RetroCollage has focused on collage, it is also a blog in itself with measurable indicators. We are aware that recognition of quality does help our reputation, and ultimately helps us reach more people on the I > read more
Mosaic of RetroCollage I
Published on 2011-06-26 22:22:11
The whole is more than the sum of its parts. (All artwork & descriptions created & copyright © by Eric Edelman. All rights reserved.) Copyright 2011Eric Edelman. This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The us > read more
Introducing Phantasistoscope: Our New Sister Site Devoted to Filmic Collage
Published on 2011-06-21 19:07:57
Art of RetroCollage takes great pleasure in announcing the opening of our sister website, Phantasistoscope. Phantasistoscope is a website devoted to the beauty of the moving image, that rapidly unrolling collage of kinetic visual impressions. Phantas > read more
A Fathers’ Day Gift to You from RetroCollage
Published on 2011-06-19 15:09:25
Happy Fathers’ Day to all the great dads out there from Instant Ancestors! Subscribe to RetroCollage using the form to the right and receive a free digital download (large version) of our “Fathers’ Day Instant Ancestors” colla > read more
Relative Strangers or Stranger Relatives? An Ancestral Collage
Published on 2011-06-14 21:42:48
The ties that bind ... and which inevitably give rise to speculations: are these people who seem so hauntingly familiar to us also hauntingly familial? Are they relative strangers? Or stranger relatives? These people who have left only silver shadows > read more
Courtship of X the Unknown: the Diplomatic Art of Collage
Published on 2011-06-06 00:11:17
Fawned and fussed over, clamored for, universally applauded, praised in song and fable, the unnamed young sovereign felt bemused by his sudden fame. (All artwork, descriptions, & other text created & copyright © by Eric Edelman. All r > read more
Courtship of X the Unknown: the Diplomatic Art of Collage
Published on 2011-06-06 00:11:17
Fawned and fussed over, clamored for, universally applauded, praised in song and fable, the unnamed young sovereign felt bemused by his sudden fame. (All artwork, descriptions, & other text created & copyright © by Eric Edelman > read more
Our Military Ancestors: a Memorial Day Collage
Published on 2011-05-29 22:35:52
Remembering those among our ancestors who served their country & their fellow citizens with selfless devotion. They helped make possible our way of life today. To them we pledge eternal gratitude, & honor them continually in our hearts > read more
Our Military Ancestors: a Memorial Day Collage
Published on 2011-05-29 22:35:52
Remembering those among our ancestors who served their country & their fellow citizens with selfless devotion. They helped make possible our way of life today. To them we pledge eternal gratitude, & honor them continually in our hearts > read more
The Rapturous Art of Judgment Day
Published on 2011-05-20 20:51:36
Judgment is a sentence already passed upon the judge. Copyright 2011Eric Edelman. This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it mak > read more
The Rapturous Art of Judgment Day
Published on 2011-05-20 20:51:36
Judgment is a sentence already passed upon the judge. Related content: The Spectre of Chromatopia The New Pharos The Seed-Pod Song Happy 107th Birthday, Joseph Cornell! Courtship of X the Unknown: the Diplomatic Art of Collage Better Re > read more
Henbane: Pilsener, Potion, or Poison?
Published on 2011-05-17 22:16:22
Limited Time Promotion Until 05/2/2011 5:00 PM Oryza sativa Canvas Print. Rice, the most versatile and popular grain.The influence of rice on humankind reaches far back in time. Rice has been grown in Asia for the last 5,000 years. 2004 was the Inter > read more
Henbane: Pilsener, Potion, or Poison?
Published on 2011-05-17 22:16:22
Limited Time Promotion Until 05/2/2011 5:00 PM Oryza sativa Canvas Print. Rice, the most versatile and popular grain.The influence of rice on humankind reaches far back in time. Rice has been grown in Asia for the last 5,000 years. 2004 was the Inter > read more
The Human Cave: now in the Enlightenment Lounge
Published on 2011-05-15 22:06:04
Art of RetroCollage takes great pleasure in announcing that The Human Cave digital collage is now appearing with Jerry Browning’s poem “The Enlightenment Lounge” on his Emotionography website: http://emotionography.net/book3/enli > read more
The Human Cave: now in the Enlightenment Lounge
Published on 2011-05-15 22:06:04
Art of RetroCollage takes great pleasure in announcing that The Human Cave digital collage is now appearing with Jerry Browning’s poem “The Enlightenment Lounge” on his Emotionography website: http://emotionography.net/book3/enli > read more
Limited Time Promotion – Oryza sativa by Ziva
Published on 2011-04-26 19:39:58
Limited Time Promotion Until 05/2/2011 5:00 PM Oryza sativa Canvas Print. Rice, the most versatile and popular grain.The influence of rice on humankind reaches far back in time. Rice has been grown in Asia for the last 5,000 years. 2004 was the Inter > read more
Limited Time Promotion – Oryza sativa by Ziva
Published on 2011-04-26 19:39:58
Limited Time Promotion Until 05/2/2011 5:00 PM Oryza sativa Canvas Print. Rice, the most versatile and popular grain.The influence of rice on humankind reaches far back in time. Rice has been grown in Asia for the last 5,000 years. 2004 was the Inter > read more
The Guilty Pleasures of Art
Published on 2011-04-25 08:00:43
Most of us equate guilty pleasures with the “Seven Mortal Sins:” But are these sins truly guilty pleasures? > read more
The Guilty Pleasures of Art
Published on 2011-04-25 08:00:43
Most of us equate guilty pleasures with the “Seven Mortal Sins:” But are these sins truly guilty pleasures? > read more
Limited Time Promotion – Thoreau Star II Canvas Print
Published on 2011-04-19 20:15:38
Limited Time Promotion Until 04/25/2011 5:00 PM Thoreau Star II Canvas Print. 14" x 11". Sale price has 45% discount. Beautiful rainbow star > read more
Limited Time Promotion – Thoreau Star II Canvas Print
Published on 2011-04-19 20:15:38
Limited Time Promotion Until 04/25/2011 5:00 PM Thoreau Star II Canvas Print. 14" x 11". Sale price has 45% discount. Beautiful rainbow star > read more
Temple of Himself: Artistic Object Lesson
Published on 2011-04-18 11:26:32
Whenever he revisits something he believes he once understood – an idea, a book, someone’s life – he finds that not only has the thing changed, but the terms upon which he understood the thing have themselves changed, or disappeared, or lost th > read more
Temple of Himself: Artistic Object Lesson
Published on 2011-04-18 11:26:32
Whenever he revisits something he believes he once understood – an idea, a book, someone’s life – he finds that not only has the thing changed, but the terms upon which he understood the thing have themselves changed, or disappeared, or lost th > read more
Limited Time Promotion – Yellow Jessamine by Ziva
Published on 2011-04-12 21:28:42
Limited Time Promotion Until 04/09/2011 5:00 PM Pitcher Plant Canvas Print. This is one of a series celebrating and reinterpreting the glories of botanical subjects as portrayed in classic wood engravings. > read more
Limited Time Promotion – Yellow Jessamine by Ziva
Published on 2011-04-12 21:28:42
Limited Time Promotion Until 04/09/2011 5:00 PM Pitcher Plant Canvas Print. This is one of a series celebrating and reinterpreting the glories of botanical subjects as portrayed in classic wood engravings. > read more
The Spectre of Chromatopia
Published on 2011-04-10 21:15:51
COLOR: the universal solvent of all that is visible, and a sovereign remedy for melancholy. Abundant beyond measure, Color bathes the world, infusing all it touches with the eye’s blessing. > read more
Ancestral Star
Published on 2011-04-06 01:47:53
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon’s verge. — Lord Byron, English poet (1788-1824) All artwork & descriptions created & copyright © by Eric Edelman. All rights reserved. C > read more
Limited Time Promotion – Pitcher Plant Canvas Print
Published on 2011-04-04 03:00:06
Limited Time Promotion Until 04/09/2011 5:00 PM Pitcher Plant Canvas Print. This is one of a series celebrating and reinterpreting the glories of botanical subjects as portrayed in classic wood engravings. > read more
Basia Tree
Published on 2011-03-30 00:32:55
The basia tree grows in the Philippines. Formerly, the milky juice of the tree’s berries & leaves was mixed with sugar cane juice and allowed to ferment into a powerful alcoholic liquor. Basia Plant (2010). Digital collage created & cop > read more
Tempo of Response
Published on 2011-03-28 12:48:02
No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been. – Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864), English poet, philanthropist, and feminist. Tempo of Response (2011). Digital collage created & copyright © by Eric Edel > read more
The Seed-Pod Song
Published on 2011-03-22 19:27:41
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, and go to the grave with the song still in them. — Thoreau All artwork & descriptions created & copyright © by Eric Edelman. All rights reserved. Copyright 2011Eric Edelman. This > read more
Talisman of Direction
Published on 2011-03-21 12:32:37
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny. Carl Schurz (1829-1906, German-America > read more
Planetary Assembly
Published on 2011-03-15 22:37:48
Although he is skeptical, the work of assembling planets goes on, patiently winding into itself threads of personality and intelligence. Examples of such handiwork abound in the night sky, plentiful beyond counting….. Planetary Assembly (2010). > read more
Romare Bearden: Profile in Collage
Published on 2011-03-14 10:05:20
The life of Romare Bearden (born in Charlotte, NC, 1911; died in New York, NY, 1988) bears out Joseph Cornell’s famous dictum, “Collage = Reality.” As an African-American artist, Bearden collaged his artistic vocation together with > read more
The New Pharos
Published on 2011-03-08 20:31:54
The storming sea washes over the jetty-stones and the lighthouse at their end. This is a beacon to guide one through all manner of rough weather beyond the merely physical, if only one remains receptive to its guidance. (All artwork and descriptions > read more
Da Vinci Star
Published on 2011-02-28 23:01:26
“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.” –Leonardo da Vinci (Italian draftsman, Painter, Sculptor, Architect and Engineer whose genius epitomized the Renaissanc > read more
On Interpretation & Interaction
Published on 2011-02-22 22:13:14
People who look for symbolic meanings fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the image. — Magritte Magritte’s thesis represents one possible position in the perception of art; there are others. Magritte clove to this nearly his > read more
Star of Enlightenment
Published on 2011-02-21 11:54:28
“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.” –Helen Keller (American Author and Educator who was blind and deaf. 1880-1968) Copyright 2011Eric Ed > read more
The Nature of Inspiration (I)
Published on 2010-09-29 11:07:57
This article was first published as The Nature of Inspiration (I) on Blogcritics. Inspiration was a favorite topic in most of the filmed stories of artists and writers I watched on TV as a kid, and naturally Hollywood did its best to glorify and acce > read more