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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What is Value and why is it important
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Value -The Element of ShadowThe word "value" is used a lot around this website. And with good reason. Value is one of the seven elements of art. Value deals with the lightness or darkness of a color. Since we see objects and understand objects because of how dark or light they are, value is incredible important to art. (I'll remind you that art is about seeing and how you see it.)
Value deals directly to light. We see things because light reflects off of objects and goes into our eyes. Our mind processes the light and rationalizes what we are seeing. Without light, we cannot see anything. In order to draw or paint in a way that creates an illusion of what we normally see, we must fully understand light and how it reacts on surfaces. Value is the key to the illusion of light. This is why value is so incredibly important to art Successful Artwork has a Full Range of ValueArtworks that exhibit a full range of value are generally successful. It doesn't matter the type of art you are creating. As long as there are dark values in harmony with light values, your artwork will most likely be aesthetically pleasing. A full range of value means that they are ample amounts of light values- called tints, and dark values- called shades. To be sure that you have a full range of value in your artwork you may create a value scale... |
Why is value important to collages?value is important in collaging and this project becasue collaging is about simplifying areas of a image and by simplifying the value it helps the artist understand the subject matter in order to paint or draw it. This project serves as the first step to creating painting as this will force students to simplifiy the value and the image to collage.
foir example look at the image of the apple that is a simplied version of the apple value. |
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Lesson: Bontany COLLAGES
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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 with the subject of a botony, i It must have a full range of value. Focus on looking for blossom or some part of the plant to focus on 2) create a value chart using the template below. use on of the two options bellow
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Gallery:elizabeth st hilaire: collage artist
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