Collage Master Ertan Atay and His Fun Art
There are many people in the world who are not interested in “this is your art.” It is difficult to instill in them a love for beauty, because they have their own scale of priorities. Nevertheless, there are masters whose work is close even to such complex individuals. One of them is the Turkish artist Ertan Atay.
Ertan Atay once painted ordinary pictures, and his works were appreciated by art connoisseurs. But then he began to create collages and millions of people who were far from art learned about him.
Atay's creations intertwine masterpieces of world painting, celebrities, and heroes from movies and cartoons. The cocktail of classics and pop culture turns out to be very unexpected, but surprisingly organic.
Ertan Atay's success is due to his fine artist's sense. He combines not random things, but carefully selected and complementary ones. As a result, a character that has long been known to everyone gets a new story and again attracts the viewer's attention.
The artist himself says that his task is to make art not boring. He does it very well, so Atay's audience includes people who are completely far from painting. The images from his collage paintings are recognizable to everyone, because they are found on the Internet at every step.
Another collage virtuoso from Turkey is the artist and designer Semih Ici. He also likes to puzzle the viewer by combining the incompatible.