Video: Let's open the cards. Matthew Cusick's amazing collages from geographic maps
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It was not at all hatred of geography lessons at school, but a love for unusual materials and an abundance of unusual ideas that prompted the artist Matthew Cusick use geographic maps for your collages. So, there were rivers, mountains, roads, deserts and seas, and steel - portraits, landscapes and other images created by the hands of an American artist. It's amazing how the author, without the help of paints, pencils and other "drawing" things, composes colors? so that you get real, voluminous, like painted pictures. Moreover, each one seems to be permeated with nerves-threads of highways and railways, stitches of rivers and patches of lakes and seas …
In addition to geographical maps, Matthew turns newspaper and magazine articles into art, and also does not disdain ordinary paints, brushes, pencils, drawing and "ordinary" paintings. All this can be seen on his website, or in Texas, where the artist lives and works.
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