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Collage Painting Project

What is collage?

Kurt Schwitters, Untitled (With an Early Portrait of Kurt


Schwitters), 1937-8

Emerging as a reaction to the First


World War, collage allowed
artists to interact with
existing materials anything
from newsprint and magazines to
maps, tickets and propaganda
and photographs to rip them
apart andthen
reassemblethem,
creatingvisually dynamic hybrids.

Hannah Hch, Fr ein Fest gemacht (Made for a Party)


1936 Whitechapel Gallery

Why make collages?

Annegret Soltau, Self Portrait


German artist Annegret Soltau constructs collage using
photographs of her own face and body, stitched with black
thread, confronting explicit issues in an imaginative manner.

Juxtaposition
an act or instance of
placing close
together or side by
side, especially for
comparison or
contrast.

John Stezaker, Muse (Film Portrait Collage) XVIII, 2012

Your job: Create a character


Imagine a
character: human,
animal, imaginary
Brainstorm who
your character is on
the worksheet
Create a collage
that represents this
character is some
way
Later, you will paint
a copy of your
collage

Jesse Treece, Mountains Between

Man Ray, Dora Maar 1936

Collage
Art Videos!
Hunter Kirkland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
bR0abMN3T0I
5 Collage artists in 5 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuM8x5kpBIs

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