COLLAGING THE EVERYDAY

C O N T E M P O R A R Y A R T I S T P R E S E N TAT I O N B Y C O R I S S A L E E D S
 THE EVERYDAY

What do these three

artworks have in common?

What activities are the

people in these works
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar, Eight Men Working (2014). Oil on canvas.

participating in?

How are these

activities similar to the
activities you sketched
in your journal?
Alain Pontecorvo, Lecture du quotidien (2013).
Oil on canvas. William Merritt Chase, The Lake for Miniature Yachts (1888). Oil on canvas.
 HOW ARE THESE WORKS SIMILAR TO THE
PREVIOUS SLIDE’S?
HOW ARE THEY DIFFERENT?

Guillaume Chiron, Bison Futé #0, collage, 21 x 23 cm, 2018. Alexey Kondakov, Song of Angel, mixed media, 2015. Frank Moth, A Postcard from Year 2346, mixed media
 GENRE ARTWORKS:
DEFINED
“ T H E P I C TO R I A L R E P R E S E N TAT I O N I N A N Y O F
VA R I O U S M E D I A O F S C E N E S O R E V E N T S F RO M
E V E RY DAY L I F E , S U C H A S M A R K E T S , D O M E S T I C
S E T T I N G S , I N T E R I O R S , PA RT I E S , I N N S C E N E S , WO R K ,
A N D S T R E E T S C E N E S . S U C H R E P R E S E N TAT I O N S M AY
B E R E A L I S T I C , I M AG I N E D, O R RO M A N T I C I Z E D BY
T H E A RT I S T .”
(SOURCE)
 GUILLAUME CHIRON
A collage artist from
France who combines
elements of everyday life
with fantastical scale and
context

Generally uses
advertising from the
1950s-1960s as his basis

Instagram Website

Untitled Untitled, 2014.

 “Every college
creates its own
story… How do
we put [the
world] in
perspective by
using various
artifacts?”
- Chiron
(source)

Flat seam #00, collage, 23 x 48 cm, 2018 Once upon a time life #00, collage, acrylic, 23 x 33 cm, 2018
Untitled Collages, Guillaume Chiron
 Great Catch!, 2017, mixed media.

TOON JOOSEN
DUTCH ARTIST AND DESIGNER
 … MY WORK [HAS] AN ALIENATING RETRO

ATMOSPHERE WITH A SPARK OF COMEDY. WHERE

DO I GET MY INSPIRATION? FROM OBJECTS AND

SITUATIONS FROM EVERYDAY LIFE.

- TOON JOOSEN
 Joosen uses
vintage photos,
magazines,
postcards, and
book pages as
materials to
Oh, My Island in the Sun, create works that
2022, mixed media. take an ironic and
surreal approach
to everyday
activities and
ordinary objects.
The Picnic, 2021,
mixed media
 everyday scenes
& objects
+
matching
perspective and
unusual scale
=
cohesive image
Instagram

Holiday Is Over, mixed media.

FRANK
MOTH
☀Anonymous duo from
Athens

☀ Mixed-media collages of
retro photographs of
everyday scenes to create
surrealist compositions

Instagram Website

image source
Love, mixed media. The Others, mixed media
 What
aspects of
these
artworks fall
under the
“genre”
category?

Software Road, mixed media. I’m Not Going Anywhere, mixed media.
 ALEXEY KONDAKOV
Ukrainian artist who uses
photoshop to combine his
own photographs of scenes
from his everyday life in Kiev
with figures from classical
paintings

Instagram Website

The right party in the right place is the goal of the weekend!, 2018, digital.
 Kondakov differs from the
other artists in this group
of artists in that he uses
realistic scale and
perspective to create his
fictional, yet somewhat
more believable scenes.

Catching Last Warm Days, 2020, digital.

Summer Heat, 2023, digital. Market Place, 2019, digital.
 You will be creating a
genre scene collage out
of various cutouts that
includes a foreground,
middle ground, and
background.

The finished product

should trick the eye as a
cohesive piece due to
the matching
perspectives of all the
cutouts.
Alexey Kondakov, out of fuss, 2020, digital.
Reminder:
A genre scene is a depiction of
“everyday life by portraying
ordinary people engaged in
common activities.”
(source)

However, you can either use

realistic scale, or dramatize
your scale to create a surreal
composition.
 REFERENCES
ALEXEY KONDAKOV:
HTTPS://WWW.THISISCOLOSSAL.COM/2015/11/ART-HISTORY-PAINTINGS-KIEV/
HTTPS://WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM/ALKSKO/?HL=EN
HTTP://ALKSKO.COM/

FRANK MOTH:
HTTPS://WWW.THISISCOLOSSAL.COM/2019/03/ATMOSPHERIC-COLLAGES-BY-FRANK-MOTH/
HTTPS://FRANKMOTH.COM/
HTTPS://WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM/FRANKMOTH/?HL=EN
HTTPS://BLOG.SOCIETY6.COM/WHO-IS-FRANK-MOTH-STEP-INTO-A-NEW-DIMENSION-WITH-THIS-
MYSTERIOUS-DUO/

GUILLAUME CHIRON:
HTTPS://WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM/GUILLAUMEGUILLAUMECHIRON/?HL=EN
HTTPS://GUILLAUMECHIRON.COM/
HTTPS://WWW.THISISCOLOSSAL.COM/2018/06/GUILLAUME-CHIRONS-CLEVER-COLLAGES/
HTTPS://GUILLAUMECHIRON.TUMBLR.COM/
HTTPS://MEDIUM.COM/@LOMOGRAPHY/STORIES-THROUGH-COLLAGES-BY-GUILLAUME-CHIRON-
90283BC52304

TOON JOOSEN:
HTTPS://WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM/TOONJOOSEN/?HL=EN
HTTPS://WWW.THISISCOLOSSAL.COM/2022/12/TOON-JOOSEN-PAPER-COLLAGES/
HTTPS://WWW.ARTUPON.COM/TOON-JOOSEN/

ADDITIONAL SOURCES:
HTTPS://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/GENRE_ART
HTTPS://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/GENRE_PAINTING