romare bearden: Collage ARtistCollage: Bearden’s Signature Style
Like the content of Bearden’s art, his methods and materials are complex and layered. Each object merits long periods of observation to discover its many facets. Throughout his more than forty-year career, Bearden successfully worked in a wide range of media, including oil and watercolor painting, edition prints, monotypes, and even one-known assemblage sculpture. However, the technique that made him famous was collage. Collage is the combination of other paper/ textured materials to create an overall image. From the start, Bearden employed collage in unique and innovative ways, and his techniques evolved over time. This section is a summary of Bearden’s collage practice, his methods and materials. Although Bearden may have made collages as early as 1956, it was in the 1960s that his art underwent a transformation. From 1963 to 1964 two major shifts occurred in Bearden’s art. First, he moved from abstraction back to figuration, and second, he changed his technique from primarily painting to primarily collage. His renewed interest in figuration may have resulted from a recent trip to France, where Bearden was inspired by European old masters. However, many factors contributed to his shift to collage. |
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Lesson: COLLAGES Animal PORTRAITS
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Inspired by Bearden and his collage Technics we are going to create a "digital collage" of a wild animal much like the work of ELIZABETH ST HILAIRE. The requirements of this projects are
1)First choose a high contrast photo of a Domestic animal (extra points for your own pet, or a friends). It must have a full range of value. Focus on looking for a animal portrait (face) 2) create a value chart using the template below. Choose One color and find texture paper in that tone in a range of Lights and Darks (remember you can use image > adjustments> brightness and contrast) . Then arrange the papers in the template from light to dark
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Project Example: I did a bull dog with newspaper collage peices
Modern Collage Artist:elizabeth st hilaire
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