Artist Statement

The assignment was to create a collage of something that represents our time.

My collage compares the diversity in art now with the paintings of Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne and Da Vinci. This theme is important because I think that it is a good idea to see how far society has come from the days when only the rich and noble could have a piece of art whether it be a painting or a photograph. Now anyone can just take a picture themselves and have it printed out using Photoshop, or they could just pay someone five dollars to do a portrait of them, or buy a painting in the subway station, or on the streets.

I designed the collage so that it included art paintings by famous artists as well as photographs of people in their natural environments and people of diverse cultures that are not rich.