But who or what are we dealing with?

April 22, 2015 11:25 AM

Collage (Some NSFW) by Franz Falckenhaus, a prolific self taught Polish artist who lives in Warsaw.
Much of his output has a decidedly retro feel to it.
Then there is his Flickr page and his web.
posted by adamvasco (5 comments total)

It is certainly interesting, monochromatic, the stuff of private dens. Has excellent formal qualities, and leaves a sense of the mysterious, especially on this android system screen.
posted by Oyéah at 11:47 AM on April 22, 2015

I like his stuff a lot: thanks, adamvasco, for this introduction to his work. His RetromindFuck self-portraits are very nicely done. I was curious as to what the original for this one might be: a reverse image search revealed that Falckenhaus put himself in Errol Flynn’s place.
posted by misteraitch at 12:24 PM on April 22, 2015 [1 favorite]

Yesterday, this guy Brett Erlich was streaming on Periscope his process for creating a series of photoshopped user-submitted instagram butt photos, and this post reminded me of that to some degree or another (probably not safe for work either).
posted by oceanjesse at 2:27 PM on April 22, 2015 [1 favorite]

He should stick to comedy if that is him.
Do you normally favourite your own posts? Maybe no-one else does. Sad.

Great sleuthing misteraitch. I didn't check those out before. I was too stuck into the Collage.
posted by adamvasco at 4:52 PM on April 22, 2015

Hey oceanjesse that was dickish of me. I apologize.
You dont need to favourite your posts as you have them in recent activity.
Anyway Brett Erlich was what pissed me off. Really. But I shouldn't have snarked at you. Shouldn't shoot the messenger!
I wont demean Erlich's photoshops as crap but I am sure that if you look at some of the early collagists who were mainly European in the 1930's that you will then see where the roots of Falkenhaus' art lies.
posted by adamvasco at 8:12 PM on April 22, 2015