Corinne Geertsen belongs to a category of artists who use collage to represent an imaginary out of the ordinary, that kind of magical and deeply world with an immediate surreal spark.
Like several other well-known artists, and already told in this blog Christian Schloe and Catrin Welz-Stein, also Corinne Geertsen is usual to use vintage images and illustrations, belonging to another era, reassembling to give a new direction and a new interpretation to her work.
The ’digital art of course, by definition, requires the use of digital media for photo editing, in fact all images are assembled and reconstructed using the most known programs, cropped, colored and modified to obtain the desired result by the artist.
In a sense these illustrations are very similar to the works of classical art is for the study of the composition and message the search is behind each of them. What you see looking at the works of Geertsen It's not just the message or the feeling or the unexpected psychological implications He wants to send the artist, but also the many hours of wise search copyright-free images to use.
In fact, to use the artist's own admission collage as a means of expression means owning a personal image archive exterminated, for Geertsen it is well 25,000 images to mix and manipulate as needed.
The common element of the works of the american artist is nature, in particular, animals. It is not hard to find in her archive children accompanied by animals or ladies who sit in the company of dangerous big cats. Why? One of the passions of the american artist is to visit and photograph zoo animals that then puts in her works mixing photographs and subjects of 19° and 20° century with modernity.
“It's all about remix”
The site of Corinne Geertsen to see her works.
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