Frank Moth: Collage Concepts

Collage With Meaning

About the Artist
Frank Moth creates nostalgic postcards from a distant but at the same time familiar future. He makes digital collages and compositions with specific, distinctive color palettes, in a critically acclaimed style that is immediately recognizable. Frank Moth was born in Athens in March 2014. He exists as an artist and as an alias for the two people that hide behind him. He has been featured in many publications worldwide, such as Huffington Post US, as well as Buzzfeed and MTV Greece. His work is currently showcased around the world in many galleries online

Artist Statement
The compositions are mainly human-centered. The presence of the human element is obvious, yet perpetually incomplete. There’s always something missing, interrupted, or covered. The face, for example, is usually covered and many times it’s not even there, so as to not surrender its vulnerable introspection, insecurity, and psychic truth without a fight.

Depersonalization/Derealization
In many of Frank Moth’s works people are pictured gazing upon themselves and their own lives on Earth from some distant point in outer space. The perspective of all things always seems to be on a strange verge, between a dream and an urban daily life.
The smothering failure of man to define and refine happiness today within geographic,  temporal, and material {technological and consumerist} bounds, is repeatedly alluded to through the use of old, manipulated paper ads from decades past, as well as old fashion magazines.


Revision/Revival/Rebirth/Insecurity
Many of the artworks feature a subtle expression of companionship or the silent, solitary, obsessive search for it {the people usually have their backs turned and there is a hint of movement in the scenery}, combined with the surreal size disproportion and the disturbed relation between man and his environment/surroundings.
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Obsession/Music/Pixels/Architecture
This is an attempt to create harmony between people and their surroundings, however imaginary, by using the eternal elements of colours, numbers, simple geometric shapes, symmetry, and subtraction, as well as universal words and concepts like “love”, “together”, “forever”, “never”, “infinity”, “why”.

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The Assignment
Now that you have a little more knowledge and understanding of what / who Frank Moth is, your job is to create your own work of art using collage media that feels like Frank Moth.  This sounds easy, but you'll soon find out that it is absolutely not that.   

Before we begin, you will be put into teams and will be challenged to look through the work on his website and answer some difficult questions about what you see recurring in the work.   Each student in the group will be required to complete a Schoology assignment, but you are able to collaborate with each other to discover the answers to the assigned questions. 

The Criteria and Expectations
Your final image should be created on a surface that is no smaller than 8.5" x 11", and no larger than 11" x 14". 

You must use physical collage media for this assignment, so find yourself some interesting print media to deconstruct, rearrange, and assemble. Your media can come from magazines, postcards, computer print outs, old photographs, books, or any other source of printed media in which you find inspiration. 

Your final work of art will need to Include an artist statement.  That statement will be a separate grade, and you will be given clear directions about how to craft that statement that goes with the work of art you've made for this challenge.