Collage
Collage art is something we can all relate to— as youngsters many of us created humble masterpieces in art class with scissors, pages from old magazines or newspapers, and glue. Masters likes of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and many more have well employed this simplistic art making technique .
What is collage art? The term comes from the French papiers collés (glued paper). Collage is an art technique used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, magazine imagery, paper etc. and pasted together/ assembled thus creating a new whole image. Its almost like recycling and re purposing. While some people trace collage back to the invention of paper (in China, in 200 BC) or to 10th-century Japan (when calligraphers applied glued paper to surfaces when writing poetry), Picasso and Braque are credited with bringing the art form into the modern age.
What is collage art? The term comes from the French papiers collés (glued paper). Collage is an art technique used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, magazine imagery, paper etc. and pasted together/ assembled thus creating a new whole image. Its almost like recycling and re purposing. While some people trace collage back to the invention of paper (in China, in 200 BC) or to 10th-century Japan (when calligraphers applied glued paper to surfaces when writing poetry), Picasso and Braque are credited with bringing the art form into the modern age.
PHOTOMONTAGEA photo montage is a Type of collage. The imagery is constructed primarily of photographs or fragments of photographs in order to direct the viewer's mind toward specific connections. Artist used this medium to a convey a message, whether that be a commentary on political, social, or other issues. Among the best example of truly collaged photomontage work is that of the Dada movement. These anti-art agitators were known to rebel against all known conventions in the art world. Many of the Dada artists based in Berlin experimented with photomontage around the 1920s.
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Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany
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The piece expertly illustrates the Surrealist and Dadaist use of photomontage along with the technique of taking words and images from the established press to create a fresh, subversive statement that was highly innovative for the time.
The Dada movement wished to critically examine German culture by not glossing over the negative aspects, but rather accentuating them. Hoch cut out pieces of images and text found in magazines, advertisements, newspapers and journals. She carefully pieced all these clippings back together in a way that made sense to her and as she felt appropriately served her purpose of critical examination. Hannah Hoch was a prominent female artist within the Dada movement in Germany after WW1 and before WW2. Take a minute and contimplate the society and world she was living in. People of Germany were feeling both angry and hopeless following ww1. Germany had lost the war (WW1) and Germany consequently was left in a state of political chaos. There was a clash between the old Weimar government and the uprising of a new left-wing communist party called the Spartasists. Her photomontage “Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany” reflected her views of the political and social issues that arose during this transitional time in German society. She chooses to give specific imagery such as kitchen knife and beer-belly, to make it clear that this piece is social commentary regarding gender issues in post-war Germany. She illustrated her opinion and dadaist opininon of the “bloated and heavy handed” nature of the male dominated Weimer republic and German military. |
Assignment
Step: 1
First choose a theme to which you are going to create your own Photo montage of. My examples are Jazz, and New York. Consider your interests. Do you have a favorite comic or music? |
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open the tutorial found at the bottom of the page. start by finding a good background picture that works with your theme. Copy and paste it into a NEW letter size file in Photoshop. Step: 3 Continue to find imagery from the internet and paste it into your composition. Make sure you are erasing or deleting backgrounds of the imagery so you don't have just squares pasted on your composition. You must collage at least 7 images including your background. Make sure too fill it up!! Step: 4 Find an image to create a clipping mask with. ie a shape to place the collage in. This will just jazz and clean up the whole piece. Step: 5 Save as a jpeg and place the image on your portfolio...,. I cant grade a blank slide!
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AssignmentStudents will create a photo montage collage using at least 6 images. Pulling inspiration from dadaist and Surrealists the collages must display a theme. Whiter it is commentary on life, society and politics or it is simply just based on students interests is up to the discretion of the artist ie student. Students will learn and use the selection tool ,filters, and layers of Photoshop to create their artwork.
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