The Influence of Cut-Ups on the Art of the Collage

Updated below.

This collage was included in a blogpost, Visions at Midnight, on May 27, 2025:

And this illustration by Susan Blasco appeared, similarly styled, in The New York Times on Oct. 13, 2025:

Postscript: Oct 30 — An email arrived this morning from Germany: “Have a look at the attached photo. That’s an article in the Südeutsche Zeitung about Christian nationalism, Trump, and the Republicans in America. They used a collage by one Felix Hunger. Here’s a link to the paper’s website, where there is a short animation of that same collage. Evidently Felix is the art director at the paper. I don’t think I need to say more. Coincidence? Synchronicity? Plagiarism? Who knows these days, as AI burrows into the last bastions of reality & truth.”