Collage de Picasso acrylic print by Galeria Trompiz. Bring your artwork to life with the stylish lines and added depth of an acrylic print. Your image gets printed directly onto the back of a 1/4' thick sheet of clear acrylic. The high gloss of the acrylic sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results. The Fun Collage Maker. With BeFunky's effortless editing tools, expressing yourself never feels like work. Our Online Collage Maker also integrates seamlessly with our Photo Editor, so you can use any of more than 200 signature effects to make your photos unforgettable. There's no limit to what BeFunky can help you create. Further reading Robert Rosenblum, ‘Picasso and the Coronation of Alexander III', Burlington Magazine, vol.113, no.828, October 1971, pp.604–8, reproduced p.607. Christine Poggi, In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism, and the Invention of Collage, New Haven 1992. Brandon Taylor, Collage: The Making of Modern Art, London 2004. Picasso collage maker free download. Photo & Graphics tools downloads - Picasso Album Maker by Q-Photo and many more programs are available for instant and free download.
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Pablo Picasso invented collage as an artistic technique around the spring of 1912. But long before this, in Barcelona in March 1899, he made a drawing in which he glued a technically reproduced image: the portrait of an actress. We now know that this piece is a picture card from a matchbox, which were very popular in the late nineteenth century.
From the peculiarity of the work, this small exhibition explores the new visuality of this period in which drawings and photographs vied for position in the popular illustrated papers and magazines, the boom in the mass production of printed images, which inundated everyday life, and the vogue for collecting them that seized a large part of the population.
Man Leaning Against a Wall
The drawing titled Man Leaning Against a Wall is part of a series of life studies drawn by Picasso at the Círculo Artístico de Barcelona in February and March 1899. This time was a crossroads in the young artist's life. He decided, against his father's wishes, to drop out of art school and pursue a career as an independent painter. The scrap of paper glued to the lower right-hand corner of the drawing is a matchbox picture-card from a series about performing artists: a popular image of the time. The subject of the photograph is the French actress Angeline Cavelle.
Picture cards
In Barcelona at the turn of the twentieth century, the graphic arts were thriving. The picture-card was a central feature; it typically came as a promotional gift, the most popular being the cromos given away with chocolate bars and matchboxes. You were given an illustrated album with allotted spaces in which to affix each picture-card as and when you added it to your collection. Each series revolved around a specific theme. This relationship between drawing and industrially copied photographs is strongly reminiscent of the duality established in Picasso's drawing.
Drawing factory I
Shortly after Man Leaning Against a Wall, Picasso threw himself into Barcelona's bustling world of the graphic arts. His need to earn a living drove him to enter poster contests and design business cards and restaurant menus. In one drawing of the period, Picasso repeatedly wrote out the words 'Drawing Factory Pablo Ruiz Picasso Barcelona' in lettering reminiscent of advertising. In about 1899, the young Picasso took a keen interest in the 'kiosk artist' Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen. He scribbled Steinlen's name repeatedly on a sheet of paper, and indirectly alluded to him in a portrait of his father in Gil Blas Illustré – a publication to which Steinlen was a fellow contributor.
Drawing factory II
Like Ramon Casas – a designer of posters and postcards whose drawings often appeared in the press, particularly Pèl & Ploma, a magazine he edited himself – Picasso was a prolific illustrator. His work appeared in the pages of the magazines Joventut, Catalunya artística and Pèl & Ploma, and the highpoint of his career as an illustrator was Arte Joven, a publication he edited himself for several months in Madrid in 1901. Later, he designed a poster for the newspaper El liberal (1902) and contributed to French popular magazines, such as the weekly Frou-frou (four drawings in 1901 and 1903).
Collage as social practice
By the late 19th century it was a popular pastime to cut out printed illustrations and put them together in a composition of your own. In photography, too, 'clichés' were routinely cut, pasted and photographed afresh. Clippings were assembled to create new illustrations, which were then printed as postcards. This offshoot of the visual arts extended to posters, the small ads, theatrical programmes and ladies' fans. These were the trends forming the background to Picasso's drawing.
Picasso: Cut and paste
Cutting and pasting was characteristic of Picasso. Even as a boy in Malaga, in 1890, he used scissors to cut out drawings, like this surviving picture of a dog. He made further use of this discovery in his later career, for quite different purposes. Many of his drawings enact a juxtaposition of violently opposed styles. In 1906, Picasso began to alloy post-Renaissance art with alternative traditions – Iberian, Australasian and African art – that at the time were still sneered at and misunderstood. It is not unfair to say that the whole of Cubism rests on that juxtaposition of languages. The process came to a head in the spring of 1912. Picasso glued an oil cloth to his painting Still Life with Chair-caning, and invented collage.
By... Fèlix FanésConference
Thursday 8 March at 7.30 p.m.
The display A Collage before Collage looks at how Picasso, at the end of the 19th century, was already introducing elements from popular culture into his works, long before his famous collages of the 1910s. Fèlix Fanés, the curator of the show, will tell us more.
Display rooms
Carrer Montcada, 23
Admission free, limited number of places
Rethinking Collage, Valeriano BozalACTIVITY CANCELED
With an introduction by Fèlix Fanés
Tuesday 22 May at 7.00p.m.
A reflection on collage on the occasion of the centenary of the creation of Picasso's first collage, Still Life with Wicker Chair (1912).
Seminar rooms of the Centre for Knowledge and Research
Plaça Sabartés, 1
Admission free, limited number of places
In association with the UAB Master's course ‘Rethinking Picasso'
Enganxina or sticker? Maja CecukWorkshop for kids
Sundays 11, 18 and 25 March and 15, 22 and 29 April from 11.30 a.m.to 1.30 p.m. (indenpendent sessions)
Come along and make your own stickers, large or small, with whatever colours, shapes and designs you like: to put your name on things, to stick to your bedroom window, to give to your friends… We'll start by looking at how Picasso and other artists cut things out and stuck them onto their drawings, and then we'll try it ourselves!
Seminar rooms of the Centre for Knowledge and Research
Plaça Sabartés, 1
Admission fee: 2 €
Recommended age range: from 6 to 11
Reservations: museupicasso_reserves@bcn.cat
Fine pearls well milled, Gloria VilchesCollage workshop for adults
17-18 and 24-25 April from 6.00 to 9.00 p.m. total: 12 h
The first session will focus on reviewing the history of collage and examining the different techniques, styles and possible interpretations by means of the analysis of a number of key works, with the other three devoted to actually making collages on the basis of different creative premises. The aim is to create a space for understanding and discussion, but also and above all to work with our hands, cutting out and pasting a variety of materials.
Seminar rooms of the Centre for Knowledge and Research
Plaça Sabartés, 1
Admission fee: 9 €
Reservations: museupicasso_reserves@bcn.cat
- Title Focus Collection 3:
A Collage before Collage - Author Fèlix Fanés
- Year 2012
- Pages 208
- Languages Catalan/English,
Castilian/English - Format 16.5 x 23.5 cm
- Publisher Museu Picasso
- ISBN
Catalan 978-84-9850-373-9
Castilian 978-84-9850-374-6 - Design Edicions de l'Eixample
- Price 15€
Man Leaning against a Wall, a drawing that Picasso made in March 1899, when he was attending life classes at the Cercle Artístic de Barcelona, provides Fèlix Fanés with the starting point for a consideration of whether this work is or is not a collage — a technique generally regarded as dating in its modern form from 1912. Fanés takes us on a fascinating journey through the personal and social contexts in which the artist was moving in these fin-de-siècle years. His skilfully told narrative traces the origin of the picture card pasted onto the bottom right corner of the drawing and in passing portrays the new visuality of this period in which drawings and photographs vied for position in the large-circulation illustrated papers and magazines, the boom in the mass production of printed images, which inundated everyday life, and the vogue for collecting them that seized a large part of the population.
- Organized by Museu Picasso, Barcelona
Exhibition organized under the directorship of Pepe Serra - Administrator Núria Fradera
- Curator Felix Fanés
- Exhibition Coordinator Mariona Tió
- Curator of the Collection Malén Gual
- Documentation Margarita Cortadella
- Preventive Conservation Reyes Jimenez and Anna Vélez
- Registrar Anna Fàbregas and Jesús San Jose
- Public Programs Anna Guarro
- Cultural Activities Marta Iglesias
- Internet Mireia Llorella, El Taller Interactivo
- Publications Marta Jové
- Graphic design todojunto.net
What is Collage?
Collage – a special method of creating artistic compositions. Its main principle consists of compiling some kind of a mosaic out of materials that have diverse shapes and texture.
Picasa
Pieces of cloth, scraps of newspaper or book pages, buttons, broken glass, nails, and wood shavings – everything that can be found, all the objects that express the author's intention are being fixed on the canvas, cardboard or any other basis with the help of glue, wire, thread and form an integral picture.
Collages may include three-dimensional elements and whole objects, such as a doll, mitten, scissors and so on.
There can be plenty of different variants. Contrast combination of materials, for example, technological or artificial, such as plastic, foam plastic on the one hand, and natural, such as bark, ceramic fragments, pieces of linen on the other, makes it possible to create an unusual, bold, controversial and even shocking works.
Combining of similar elements, on the contrary, gives a sense of internal unity, stylistic consistency. In case the natural materials are being used, the work is very likely to be extremely harmonious and will possess some sort of inner equilibrium.
The Appearance Of Collage
The first evidence of the use of collage techniques dates back to the 2nd century BC and corresponds approximately to the time of the invention of paper in China. Until the 10th century, the use of collage was extremely rare.
Since the 10th century, Japanese calligraphers began to use specially treated and glued small pieces of paper in their works. As concerns Europe, we can say that the history of such a phenomenon as collage begins here in the 13th century.
Elements of gilded sheets began to be used in the decoration of Gothic cathedrals around the fifteenth and sixteenth century. Precious stones and metals started to be used to decorate the sacred images and their frames.
Despite the use of artistic methods that can resemble collage way before the 20th century, some critics still say that the collage, as a separate form of art, appeared only after 1900, with the first phase of modernism.
Art collage concepts associated with the beginning of modernism and cubism, in particular, include much more than just the idea of the composition of heterogeneous elements. Paper glued to the Braque's and Picasso's paintings offers a new look at the picture.
Three-dimensional parts of the collage collide with the planar surface of the painting. From this perspective, collage technique can be defined as the manifestation of art between a painting and a sculpture.
This new way of the composition provided a new look at the creation of both sculptures and paintings. With time, the collage method evolved into an extremely popular and influential form of art. The history of collage technique can be traced back hundreds of years, but it was only in the early twentieth century when it appeared as entirely new art.
We can say that collage technique started to be widely used in the early twentieth century for creating avant-garde works, mostly by such representatives of cubism as a Spanish painter Pablo Picasso and a French painter and collagist Georges Braque.
Artists of the early 20th century were passionate about the experiments, the search for a new artistic language. One after another, there appeared modernist schools and trends which set a goal – to change conventional ideas about painting.
Cubists in their works used unusual techniques, and materials. One of the discoveries of that era was the collage. They decomposed objects into geometric shapes and constructed paintings by using simple geometric forms as elements of the composition. An image created in such a way was a kind of mosaic compiled from elements-symbols.
in their works, cubist artists strived to reproduce the spirit of modern times. They supplemented the paintings with such signs of civilization as scraps of papers, labels, signage letters.
Collage In Paintings
The appearance of such 'strange' materials in paintings can be considered the beginning of the collage technique. Pablo Picasso became the creator of the first integral collage compositions.
He embedded in his compositions fragments of wallpaper, posters, newspaper cuttings, sand, wire. By doing it, the master transferred the reality to the context of the picture, destroying all stereotypes about the painting.
Picasa Collage Maker Download
The collage method was intended to rebuild the man's mentality, to make him see that the world is unpredictable and changeable, and the properties of things are impermanent. The reality in the compositions of Picasso was created and constructed according to the will of the artist, not copied or reflected.
In the following years, a whole generation of futurists, surrealists, and other artists shared his fascination for this kind of art. Each element of the composition was extracted from its context and included in an alien environment, thus gaining a whole new meaning. It was this transformation of the material, violation of traditional ties, the unusual role of the usual things that attracted artists.
In the middle of the 1940s, there was a time of intensive experiments. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson created sculptural (three-dimensional) collages from found wooden debris, pieces of furniture, interior items, wooden boxes, barrels, as well as architectural remains, stair railings, wooden panels.
Rectangular, very large in size, painted in black, they resemble gigantic paintings, which sometimes can be seen from different angles, or even be transparent. Many compositions from wood are much smaller in scale.
Collage de Picasso acrylic print by Galeria Trompiz. Bring your artwork to life with the stylish lines and added depth of an acrylic print. Your image gets printed directly onto the back of a 1/4' thick sheet of clear acrylic. The high gloss of the acrylic sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results. The Fun Collage Maker. With BeFunky's effortless editing tools, expressing yourself never feels like work. Our Online Collage Maker also integrates seamlessly with our Photo Editor, so you can use any of more than 200 signature effects to make your photos unforgettable. There's no limit to what BeFunky can help you create. Further reading Robert Rosenblum, ‘Picasso and the Coronation of Alexander III', Burlington Magazine, vol.113, no.828, October 1971, pp.604–8, reproduced p.607. Christine Poggi, In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism, and the Invention of Collage, New Haven 1992. Brandon Taylor, Collage: The Making of Modern Art, London 2004. Picasso collage maker free download. Photo & Graphics tools downloads - Picasso Album Maker by Q-Photo and many more programs are available for instant and free download.
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Pablo Picasso invented collage as an artistic technique around the spring of 1912. But long before this, in Barcelona in March 1899, he made a drawing in which he glued a technically reproduced image: the portrait of an actress. We now know that this piece is a picture card from a matchbox, which were very popular in the late nineteenth century.
From the peculiarity of the work, this small exhibition explores the new visuality of this period in which drawings and photographs vied for position in the popular illustrated papers and magazines, the boom in the mass production of printed images, which inundated everyday life, and the vogue for collecting them that seized a large part of the population.
Man Leaning Against a Wall
The drawing titled Man Leaning Against a Wall is part of a series of life studies drawn by Picasso at the Círculo Artístico de Barcelona in February and March 1899. This time was a crossroads in the young artist's life. He decided, against his father's wishes, to drop out of art school and pursue a career as an independent painter. The scrap of paper glued to the lower right-hand corner of the drawing is a matchbox picture-card from a series about performing artists: a popular image of the time. The subject of the photograph is the French actress Angeline Cavelle.
Picture cards
In Barcelona at the turn of the twentieth century, the graphic arts were thriving. The picture-card was a central feature; it typically came as a promotional gift, the most popular being the cromos given away with chocolate bars and matchboxes. You were given an illustrated album with allotted spaces in which to affix each picture-card as and when you added it to your collection. Each series revolved around a specific theme. This relationship between drawing and industrially copied photographs is strongly reminiscent of the duality established in Picasso's drawing.
Drawing factory I
Shortly after Man Leaning Against a Wall, Picasso threw himself into Barcelona's bustling world of the graphic arts. His need to earn a living drove him to enter poster contests and design business cards and restaurant menus. In one drawing of the period, Picasso repeatedly wrote out the words 'Drawing Factory Pablo Ruiz Picasso Barcelona' in lettering reminiscent of advertising. In about 1899, the young Picasso took a keen interest in the 'kiosk artist' Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen. He scribbled Steinlen's name repeatedly on a sheet of paper, and indirectly alluded to him in a portrait of his father in Gil Blas Illustré – a publication to which Steinlen was a fellow contributor.
Drawing factory II
Like Ramon Casas – a designer of posters and postcards whose drawings often appeared in the press, particularly Pèl & Ploma, a magazine he edited himself – Picasso was a prolific illustrator. His work appeared in the pages of the magazines Joventut, Catalunya artística and Pèl & Ploma, and the highpoint of his career as an illustrator was Arte Joven, a publication he edited himself for several months in Madrid in 1901. Later, he designed a poster for the newspaper El liberal (1902) and contributed to French popular magazines, such as the weekly Frou-frou (four drawings in 1901 and 1903).
Collage as social practice
By the late 19th century it was a popular pastime to cut out printed illustrations and put them together in a composition of your own. In photography, too, 'clichés' were routinely cut, pasted and photographed afresh. Clippings were assembled to create new illustrations, which were then printed as postcards. This offshoot of the visual arts extended to posters, the small ads, theatrical programmes and ladies' fans. These were the trends forming the background to Picasso's drawing.
Picasso: Cut and paste
Cutting and pasting was characteristic of Picasso. Even as a boy in Malaga, in 1890, he used scissors to cut out drawings, like this surviving picture of a dog. He made further use of this discovery in his later career, for quite different purposes. Many of his drawings enact a juxtaposition of violently opposed styles. In 1906, Picasso began to alloy post-Renaissance art with alternative traditions – Iberian, Australasian and African art – that at the time were still sneered at and misunderstood. It is not unfair to say that the whole of Cubism rests on that juxtaposition of languages. The process came to a head in the spring of 1912. Picasso glued an oil cloth to his painting Still Life with Chair-caning, and invented collage.
By... Fèlix FanésConference
Thursday 8 March at 7.30 p.m.
The display A Collage before Collage looks at how Picasso, at the end of the 19th century, was already introducing elements from popular culture into his works, long before his famous collages of the 1910s. Fèlix Fanés, the curator of the show, will tell us more.
Display rooms
Carrer Montcada, 23
Admission free, limited number of places
Rethinking Collage, Valeriano BozalACTIVITY CANCELED
With an introduction by Fèlix Fanés
Tuesday 22 May at 7.00p.m.
A reflection on collage on the occasion of the centenary of the creation of Picasso's first collage, Still Life with Wicker Chair (1912).
Seminar rooms of the Centre for Knowledge and Research
Plaça Sabartés, 1
Admission free, limited number of places
In association with the UAB Master's course ‘Rethinking Picasso'
Enganxina or sticker? Maja CecukWorkshop for kids
Sundays 11, 18 and 25 March and 15, 22 and 29 April from 11.30 a.m.to 1.30 p.m. (indenpendent sessions)
Come along and make your own stickers, large or small, with whatever colours, shapes and designs you like: to put your name on things, to stick to your bedroom window, to give to your friends… We'll start by looking at how Picasso and other artists cut things out and stuck them onto their drawings, and then we'll try it ourselves!
Seminar rooms of the Centre for Knowledge and Research
Plaça Sabartés, 1
Admission fee: 2 €
Recommended age range: from 6 to 11
Reservations: museupicasso_reserves@bcn.cat
Fine pearls well milled, Gloria VilchesCollage workshop for adults
17-18 and 24-25 April from 6.00 to 9.00 p.m. total: 12 h
The first session will focus on reviewing the history of collage and examining the different techniques, styles and possible interpretations by means of the analysis of a number of key works, with the other three devoted to actually making collages on the basis of different creative premises. The aim is to create a space for understanding and discussion, but also and above all to work with our hands, cutting out and pasting a variety of materials.
Seminar rooms of the Centre for Knowledge and Research
Plaça Sabartés, 1
Admission fee: 9 €
Reservations: museupicasso_reserves@bcn.cat
- Title Focus Collection 3:
A Collage before Collage - Author Fèlix Fanés
- Year 2012
- Pages 208
- Languages Catalan/English,
Castilian/English - Format 16.5 x 23.5 cm
- Publisher Museu Picasso
- ISBN
Catalan 978-84-9850-373-9
Castilian 978-84-9850-374-6 - Design Edicions de l'Eixample
- Price 15€
Man Leaning against a Wall, a drawing that Picasso made in March 1899, when he was attending life classes at the Cercle Artístic de Barcelona, provides Fèlix Fanés with the starting point for a consideration of whether this work is or is not a collage — a technique generally regarded as dating in its modern form from 1912. Fanés takes us on a fascinating journey through the personal and social contexts in which the artist was moving in these fin-de-siècle years. His skilfully told narrative traces the origin of the picture card pasted onto the bottom right corner of the drawing and in passing portrays the new visuality of this period in which drawings and photographs vied for position in the large-circulation illustrated papers and magazines, the boom in the mass production of printed images, which inundated everyday life, and the vogue for collecting them that seized a large part of the population.
- Organized by Museu Picasso, Barcelona
Exhibition organized under the directorship of Pepe Serra - Administrator Núria Fradera
- Curator Felix Fanés
- Exhibition Coordinator Mariona Tió
- Curator of the Collection Malén Gual
- Documentation Margarita Cortadella
- Preventive Conservation Reyes Jimenez and Anna Vélez
- Registrar Anna Fàbregas and Jesús San Jose
- Public Programs Anna Guarro
- Cultural Activities Marta Iglesias
- Internet Mireia Llorella, El Taller Interactivo
- Publications Marta Jové
- Graphic design todojunto.net
What is Collage?
Collage – a special method of creating artistic compositions. Its main principle consists of compiling some kind of a mosaic out of materials that have diverse shapes and texture.
Picasa
Pieces of cloth, scraps of newspaper or book pages, buttons, broken glass, nails, and wood shavings – everything that can be found, all the objects that express the author's intention are being fixed on the canvas, cardboard or any other basis with the help of glue, wire, thread and form an integral picture.
Collages may include three-dimensional elements and whole objects, such as a doll, mitten, scissors and so on.
There can be plenty of different variants. Contrast combination of materials, for example, technological or artificial, such as plastic, foam plastic on the one hand, and natural, such as bark, ceramic fragments, pieces of linen on the other, makes it possible to create an unusual, bold, controversial and even shocking works.
Combining of similar elements, on the contrary, gives a sense of internal unity, stylistic consistency. In case the natural materials are being used, the work is very likely to be extremely harmonious and will possess some sort of inner equilibrium.
The Appearance Of Collage
The first evidence of the use of collage techniques dates back to the 2nd century BC and corresponds approximately to the time of the invention of paper in China. Until the 10th century, the use of collage was extremely rare.
Since the 10th century, Japanese calligraphers began to use specially treated and glued small pieces of paper in their works. As concerns Europe, we can say that the history of such a phenomenon as collage begins here in the 13th century.
Elements of gilded sheets began to be used in the decoration of Gothic cathedrals around the fifteenth and sixteenth century. Precious stones and metals started to be used to decorate the sacred images and their frames.
Despite the use of artistic methods that can resemble collage way before the 20th century, some critics still say that the collage, as a separate form of art, appeared only after 1900, with the first phase of modernism.
Art collage concepts associated with the beginning of modernism and cubism, in particular, include much more than just the idea of the composition of heterogeneous elements. Paper glued to the Braque's and Picasso's paintings offers a new look at the picture.
Three-dimensional parts of the collage collide with the planar surface of the painting. From this perspective, collage technique can be defined as the manifestation of art between a painting and a sculpture.
This new way of the composition provided a new look at the creation of both sculptures and paintings. With time, the collage method evolved into an extremely popular and influential form of art. The history of collage technique can be traced back hundreds of years, but it was only in the early twentieth century when it appeared as entirely new art.
We can say that collage technique started to be widely used in the early twentieth century for creating avant-garde works, mostly by such representatives of cubism as a Spanish painter Pablo Picasso and a French painter and collagist Georges Braque.
Artists of the early 20th century were passionate about the experiments, the search for a new artistic language. One after another, there appeared modernist schools and trends which set a goal – to change conventional ideas about painting.
Cubists in their works used unusual techniques, and materials. One of the discoveries of that era was the collage. They decomposed objects into geometric shapes and constructed paintings by using simple geometric forms as elements of the composition. An image created in such a way was a kind of mosaic compiled from elements-symbols.
in their works, cubist artists strived to reproduce the spirit of modern times. They supplemented the paintings with such signs of civilization as scraps of papers, labels, signage letters.
Collage In Paintings
The appearance of such 'strange' materials in paintings can be considered the beginning of the collage technique. Pablo Picasso became the creator of the first integral collage compositions.
He embedded in his compositions fragments of wallpaper, posters, newspaper cuttings, sand, wire. By doing it, the master transferred the reality to the context of the picture, destroying all stereotypes about the painting.
Picasa Collage Maker Download
The collage method was intended to rebuild the man's mentality, to make him see that the world is unpredictable and changeable, and the properties of things are impermanent. The reality in the compositions of Picasso was created and constructed according to the will of the artist, not copied or reflected.
In the following years, a whole generation of futurists, surrealists, and other artists shared his fascination for this kind of art. Each element of the composition was extracted from its context and included in an alien environment, thus gaining a whole new meaning. It was this transformation of the material, violation of traditional ties, the unusual role of the usual things that attracted artists.
In the middle of the 1940s, there was a time of intensive experiments. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson created sculptural (three-dimensional) collages from found wooden debris, pieces of furniture, interior items, wooden boxes, barrels, as well as architectural remains, stair railings, wooden panels.
Rectangular, very large in size, painted in black, they resemble gigantic paintings, which sometimes can be seen from different angles, or even be transparent. Many compositions from wood are much smaller in scale.
They do usually include pieces of wood, wood shavings or waste collected on the plane, paper, canvas, or on a wooden board. Such framed, like a photograph, three-dimensional collages offer the artist an opportunity to use such inherent properties of wood as depth, natural color, textural variety.
The collage technique with the inclusion of wood can be also used in combination with painting, graphics and other means in a single work of art. The collage was also used by many surrealist painters.
One of the techniques of collage, used mainly by representatives of cubism, cutting the image into squares which were then collected back in random order or with some slight rearrangements.
According to many critics, John Heartfield (German graphic artist, one of the founders of a photomontage), was the first who translated the technique of collage creation into an art form and presented it to the public in 1924.
He used collage as a satirical weapon against Hitler and Nazism, applying it basically for combining the pictures. George Gross recalled that when John Heartfield invented photomontage in his office at five o'clock in the morning in May 1916, no one had any idea of its enormous potential, as it often happens in life, they stumbled upon a gold mine without even knowing it.
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The collage technique was also used by the Italian futurists and many other artists in the history of the twentieth century, including Robert Rauschenberg, who is considered to be one of the leading masters of this technique.
The new realism exhibition in the Galerie Rive Droite in Paris is known for the international debut of the artists who founded what became known as pop art in Europe and the United States. Many of these artists used collage techniques in their work.
Contemporary Types Of Collage
Application
Specially prepared elements cut from paper, leather, cloth, and other plant materials are glued to the basis.
Assemblage
A technique of creating the compositions from the elements that constitute the associative array using one or several characteristics.
Bricolage
A technique of creating artworks, design and decor elements of any natural or man-made materials that can not be combined with the usual representation.
Decoupage
The art of decorating objects by gluing different in color, texture and size pieces of paper in combination with special paint effects, varnish, and other coatings. Typically, the surface of the object is completely hidden under the decoration and has the form of incrustation.
Photo Collage And Photomontage
With the development of photography, a new type of collage appears. It was named a photo collage. Initially, it was making compositions with the help of background pictures, memorable or just beautiful places using different techniques, drawing, creating models of different objects. Later a hole for the face appeared, and the degree of naturalness started to be determined by the skill of the artist who created the image.
The increased quality of the photos made it possible to create a new subtype of a collage called photomontage. This is a real combination of two or more images into one, which requires many different skills and deep knowledge. The photomontage is very complex and painstaking work which takes many hours of hard work.
Technically, the montage is created in several steps – a selection of images according to the degree and angle of lighting and their general quality, creating applications or printing using a mask, further retouching, removal of image borders, working with shadows, giving natural effect to lightning and then printing the final result.
A Modern Photo Collage
Today digital photography and advanced software allow creating photo collages of very high quality, visually indistinguishable from the original pictures. Professional use of modern means of digital image processing will help you to find yourself among the favorite movie or historical characters, in the paintings of famous artists, on another planet or in a completely different historical period.
It is also possible to remove or add various elements to the final image, from the text and vignettes to individuals. In addition to the compositions on a single sheet, collages from multiple images of different sizes and decorative elements also gain popularity.
Photos can be designed in the same style and in the same frames. As an alternative – a photo can be stylized according to different periods of time – black and white with a carved edge, sepia, color, digital. Frames can also be of different styles – from simple wooden to modern – plastic and metallic.
Despite the fact that it may seem pretty easy, the modern photo collage is a serious and difficult work, which in addition to vocational skills, requires special knowledge of composition, a theory of light (lighting), the combination and compatibility of colors and simple artistic taste.
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