Legitimate Collage
I came back from what I called an "illegitimate trip". It was supposed to be the kind of a personal itinerary... Finally it became a heavily cultural experience with ample exposure to the artistic heritage from the Medieval Europe.
I have been tempted to do a research on the concept of "collage" but in terms of a larger sense of interpretation, trying to put all "juxtaposition" in artistic creation into the category. For example, Peter Brueghel the elder put Virgin Mary and the new-born in a setting of 15th-century Flemish village, depicting a lot of everyday life of the ordinary people with the saints among them. Another way to think about it, is Hieronymus Bosch's monstrous creation of those mixtures of human's body and animals' features.I am interested not on the creative means (as termed as "collage") by themselves, but their relation to the mentality and even spiritual notions regarding their contemporary societies. Even how the different panels of the altar pieces from 11th-century onwards imposed overwhelming attraction to me in this trip... Renaissance, for the first time in my life, seems very evil, as many spiritual depiction disappeared suddenly walking from the galleries of pre-renaissance period to the new age of men.
Why? I am in a spiritual mood to contemplate. Am I illegitimate, or insane.
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