{"id":11220,"date":"2012-04-03T02:26:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T01:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11220"},"modified":"2025-09-24T21:17:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:17:33","slug":"the-art-of-luis-toledo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/04\/03\/the-art-of-luis-toledo\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Luis Toledo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laprisamata.es\/Invariancia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/toledo1.jpg\" alt=\"toledo1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Invariancia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The workload has increased recently so posting here may tend to laziness for a while. I think I first saw the hyper-detailed digital collages of Luis Toledo aka Laprisamata at <a href=\"http:\/\/thombeau.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Form is Void<\/a> where Thom has a knack for spotting the good stuff. I was reminded of them again last week thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/dressingtheair.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dressing the Air<\/a>. The detail and variety of these works means they really need to be seen at a much larger size, something you can do at the artist&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.behance.net\/laprisamata\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Behance<\/a> pages and at <a href=\"http:\/\/laprisamata.es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his website<\/a>. As always with collage, composition is crucial, and Toledo certainly knows what he&#8217;s doing on that score. Those familiar with Ernst Haeckel&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Kunstformen_der_Natur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kunstformen der Natur<\/a><\/em> can have fun playing spot the image source.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laprisamata.es\/Desaparecida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/toledo2.jpg\" alt=\"toledo2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Desaparecida.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-fantastic-art-archive\/\">The fantastic art archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/02\/16\/jacques-brissots-hay-wain\/\">Jacques Brissot\u2019s Hay Wain<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/11\/03\/the-art-of-jindrich-styrsky-1899\u20131942\/\">The art of Jind\u0159ich \u0160tyrsk\u00fd, 1899\u20131942<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/09\/10\/initiations-in-the-abyss-a-surrealist-apocalypse\/\">Initiations in the Abyss: A Surrealist Apocalypse<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/02\/22\/vultures-await\/\">Vultures Await<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/11\/01\/wilfried-satty-artist-of-the-occult\/\">Wilfried S\u00e4tty: Artist of the occult<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/10\/28\/illustrating-poe-4-wilfried-satty\/\">Illustrating Poe #4: Wilfried S\u00e4tty<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/01\/12\/metamorphosis-victorianus\/\">Metamorphosis Victorianus<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/05\/17\/max-the-birdman-ernst\/\">Max (The Birdman) Ernst<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/04\/30\/gandharva-by-beaver-krause\/\">Gandharva by Beaver &amp; Krause<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/02\/10\/the-art-of-stephen-aldrich\/\">The art of Stephen Aldrich<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invariancia. The workload has increased recently so posting here may tend to laziness for a while. I think I first saw the hyper-detailed digital collages of Luis Toledo aka Laprisamata at Form is Void where Thom has a knack for spotting the good stuff. I was reminded of them again last week thanks to Dressing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/04\/03\/the-art-of-luis-toledo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Luis Toledo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,1029],"tags":[5367,3578,3577],"class_list":["post-11220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-collage","tag-form-is-void","tag-laprisamata","tag-luis-toledo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2UY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}