Picasso, Gris, and Braque and a host of other young artists in the European avant garde began using small objects, pieces of newspaper, wallpaper and various other papers to make works of art just before World War I.
After the war these procedures were carried even farther by the Dadaists and Russian Formalists by including parts of photographs as well, making it a generously inclusive multi-medium.
Task - Research:
On the internet, find some examples of the materials they used in their collages.
Why do you think they began using these materials?
Have a look for some works by the artists mentioned,
Save some images that you like and try to say why you like them
Often pieces of diverse materials and media (such as tissue paper, newspaper, gum wrappers, tickets, fabric, stamps, bank notes, photographs, paint), were combined to make these collages. Dadaists making substantial use of photographs clipped from newspapers, magazines, and catalogues of the time. The term photocollage might be appropriate for such works.
Task - Practical:
From the collection of newspapers I have brought in, make a very simple collage, by juxtaposing at least two different layers of images.
These days, the cutting and pasting are often done digitally, so that the term digital collage is used. There is in fact a great deal of collage displayed on the Web, some of it digital and some scanned or photographed copies of work in traditional materials. Some artists use the Web as a marketing medium, posting up small teasers to induce purchase of the work, others offer larger images, as if the Web is their primary way of being seen, the Web is their gallery.
Shirin Kouladjie and Aleksandr Rodchenko
Using uploaded photographs, paper collage and digital images we will make a mixed media- collage of ourselves.
By using a portrait of yourself as the starting point combine other imagery to create a composition, expressing an idea, an interest, or a feeling.
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