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Max Ernst was a surrealist painter and a member of the Dada movement, but I know him best for his collage, which tends to find me no matter where I am on the internet. The image below is taken (I believe) from Une semaine de bonté, a surrealist graphic novel that is made up of 182 images he created by cutting up and reorganizing Victorian encyclopedias. For those of you familiar with Wondermark!, it's kind of like that. I wish I could say something intelligent, like how Ernst's work holds more interepidation and danger than that of the other artists who also use this technique, but I just haven't read enough yet to be sure. (I wonder if I can order that off Amazon...)

The key to collage is, much like writing, knowing what you want to represent and pulling together the pieces that you think will get you there. Which part of this image are you going to pluck away and make something new with?