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| Romare Bearden, Black Madona and Child, 1969 |
Collage (From the French: coller, to glue) is a technique of making art from scraps and other bits of miscellaneous materials. A collage may include newspaper clippings, ribbons, bits of colored or handmade papers, portions of other artwork or texts, photographs and / or other found objects. The assemblage of materials are then glued to a piece of paper or canvas...
EARLY BEGINNINGS:
The origins of collage can be traced back hundreds of years, but this technique made a dramatic reappearance in the early 20th century as an art form of novelty.
The use of collage, wasn't used by many people until the 10th century in Japan, when calligraphers began to apply glued paper, using texts on surfaces, when writing their poems.[3]
The technique of collage appeared again in medieval Europe during the 13th century, and gold leaf panels started to be applied in Gothic cathedrals around the 15th and 16th centuries. Gemstones and other precious metals were applied to religious images, icons, and also, to coats of arms.[3] And, perhaps most notably, in the 19th century, collage methods were used among hobbyists for memorabilia (e.g. applied to photo albums) and books, much like the craft of scrap-booking that is popular today.
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| Picasso early collage work...
According
to the Guggenheim Museum's online art glossary, collage is an artistic
concept associated with the beginnings of modernism, and entails much
more than the idea of gluing something onto something else. The glued-on
patches which Braque and Picasso added to their canvases offered a new
perspective on painting when the patches "collided with the surface
plane of the painting."[5] In this perspective, collage was part of a
methodical reexamination of the relation between painting and sculpture,
and these new works "gave each medium some of the characteristics of
the other," according to the Guggenheim essay. Furthermore, these
chopped-up bits of newspaper introduced fragments of externally
referenced meaning into the collision: "References to current events,
such as the war in the Balkans, and to popular culture enriched the
content of their art." This juxtaposition of signifiers, "at once
serious and tongue-in-cheek," was fundamental to the inspiration behind
collage: "Emphasizing concept and process over end product, collage has
brought the incongruous into meaningful congress with the ordinary."
COLLAGE AND MODERNISM
Despite the pre-twentieth-century use of collage-like application techniques, some art
authorities
argue that collage, properly speaking, did not emerge until after 1900,
in conjunction with the early stages of modernism.
Today,
collage work is applied to many different types of mediums (materials)
in the visual arts including painting, decoupage (the process of gluing
images onto objects for decoration), wood working, and photomontage
(bits of photographs glued together to make a single composition). In
our media driven society digital collage and eCollage involve the use
computer tools to create images. The idea of borrowing pieces of many
works of original art to create a new and uniquely separate work of art
is most noted in the audio visual. However collage is also employed by
musicians to "sample" parts of songs or film to create a fresh new
work.
ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP PROCESS
For
the purposes of this workshop, the most important thing to remember about
collage is that you are a searcher and a borrower. You will be hunting
for bits and pieces of images to use in capturing the voice of your own personal
story (narrative). Tapping in on your emotions, and mining for memories, your task
is to take inspiration from images you find, which seem to address a
personalized vision of the collage assignments.
One
of the most helpful techniques for this process is to keep an image
bank. Meaning, never throw away image away from one assignment to the
next. Rather, keep them in plastic sleeves that allow you to look
through easily as you mine memories of the past. Keeping a image bank,
that is embellished with personal items from home, or found, will be rewarded in
the form of unique and interesting collages.
TYPES OF COLLAGE:
Finally,
making 2-D collages (which will constitute the bulk of our work) can
take on several forms. Below are examples to help you determine which
kind of collage is best suited for the story you want to tell in your
collage. We will survey these forms of collage and others during the
process of this workshop.
TYPES OF COLLAGE DEFINED:
1. NARRATIVE:
USING DIFFERENT IMAGES GLUED TOGETHER TO CREATE A STORY OR MOOD: these artists used clipped photos and colored Paper to create space, feelings, events, ideas… **Narrative Collage (can also incorporate words)
2. NON-OBJECTIVE / OBJECTIVE ABSTRACT
USING COLLAGE TO CREATE ABSTRACT DESIGN: In Henri Matisse's "The Snail", the artist Clipped sheets of colored paper to create MOVEMENT, SPACE, And COMPOSITION – IN A NON-OBJECT (meaning not meant to look like anything) design.
3. PORTRAIT
COLLAGE USING IMAGES TO EXPRESS SHAPE = or PORTRAIT COLLAGE: Each image here has used cut outs to define a specific shape
4. JOURNAL / WORD INSPIRED
COLLAGE USING WORDS TO JOURNAL AND EXPRESS FEELINGS:
Using
images or words, in order to express their attitudes toward aging, This
student made a collage, which spells out words that begin
RESOURCES FOR THIS ARTICLE:
Most of this article was copied from Wikipedia "Collage"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collage
3. Leland, Nita; Virginia Lee Williams (September 1994). "One". Creative Collage Techniques. Northhttps://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8768332855878318552#editor/target=post;postID=4174088174719470940 Light Books. p. 7. ISBN 0-89134-563-9.
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