Buzz Spector
American, born 1948
De Stijlscape
1987
Collage composed of cut and painted elements 
on painted white wove paper
21 x 39.7 cm
Restricted gift of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Shorr in honor of Jalane and Richard Davidson, 1988.287
© Buzz Spector

The American artist Spector is also an art historian and critic. To make his own unique compositions, he combines other artists’ ideas and styles.  For example, this collage pieces together scraps of art from different eras: the windmill is a postcard painted in a style similar to that of the seventeenth-century artist Hobbema, the background is Impressionistic, like Monet’s Water Lilies, and the colored squares come from diagonal compositions by the twentieth-century artist Mondrian.