Let's meet some artists
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Pablo Picasso
Picasso started a phase of art called cubism. He looked at 3D objects and broke them down into 2D fragments. Some say that this started the new art form of collaging as Picasso layered different fragments onto a surface.
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Picasso’s early collages often used wallpapers and newspapers. His collages developed as he added man-made material to his paintings.
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Picasso played with still life set-ups and looked at them from various angles to create illusions in his work.
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Still life= an arrangement of objects used to look at when drawing or painting
Create a collage inspired by Picasso's paintings
Henri Matisse
Henry Matisse was a French artist who was known for his bold use of colors.
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Matisse's work began to focus on collage as he got older and his ill health meant that he had to stop painting. He instead turned to collaging and cutting out paper.
He used brightly colored paper and scissors to cut out shapes, animals, leaves, dancers and flowers and then arrange them onto a surface. His work is usually so large! Watch the video below to see how big they are...
Create a collage inspired by Matisse
Hannah Hoch
Hannah Höch was a German artist who was known for her collages of cut up photos stuck together to create fantastical imagery.
She co-invented photomontage with then-partner Raoul Hausmann. Whilst on holiday, they found photos and postcards at a shop that was selling altered photos – from World War I German soldiers. Höch brought the photos and decided to cut them up, reassemble and glue them into what she called photomontage.
Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Schwitters is a German artist most famous for his collages.
Following World War I, Kurt Schwitters began to collect garbage from the streets and incorporate it directly into his art work.
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No material was considered unsuitable for art by Schwitters. His collages use magazine cuttings, found objects, sweet wrappers and more!
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His collages are abstract and he encourages his audience to find their own meanings. What do you see within his art?
Abstract
Abstract art is non- lifelike. It portrays real world objects, people and scenes in a way that people may find hard to recognize.
Jesse Treece
Jesse Treece is an American collage artist.
He came across a box of old magazine clippings one night and decided to make a visual story out of them which turned into his first collage.
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His collages are made with scissors, glue and vintage magazines and books.
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His work combines real life and an alternate world. You may feel like his work looks like they are photos taken in a mystical space world. How do they make you feel?
Create your own fantasy land inspired by Treece
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
Collage was important in Paolozzi’s work - many of his sculptures and prints were made by building up different layers of objects and images, just like collages.
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He experimented with screenprinting and over the years he made a large number of collages using sections of cut or torn paper from large screenprinted sheets of irregular line and dot patterns.
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These smaller collages were the base for large scale collage murals.
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Screen printing
The process of creating a picture or pattern by putting ink or metal on to a surface through a screen of fine material.