![]() In his Landmark abstract collages, Kurt Schwitters used everyday objects such as bus tickets, fabric and labels to explore the trauma of post-war Europe: ‘Everything had broken down and new things had to be made out of the fragments and this is Merz.’ Hannah Hoch’s dadaist work is intriguing and disturbing. John Heartfield used his art to fight fascism. ![]() But Picasso’s work is concerned mainly with playful explorations of form and shape.įor me, more interesting pieces cam later, with the political photo-montage of John Heartfield and Hannah Hoch, who used their art as a form of social critique. I’ve commented before on Picasso’s ‘ Still Life with Chair Caning‘ and it’s easy to see why his experiments were considered so audacious. They used newsprint, coloured paper, fabric and photographs to compose works that combined elements of so-called ‘high’ and ‘low’ art. The word ‘collage’ was coined from the French verb ‘coller’, to stick and Picasso and Braque embraced the medium as part of the cubist movement. And below that there is a deeper fear – why am I doing this? What meaning/s does it have?Ĭollage emerged as an art form in its own right in the early twentieth century. There’s something very appealing about tearing, cutting, gluing… But I think it is incredibly difficult to do it well and one of the chief worries I have is that what’s produced looks childish or ill-considered. ![]() Of all the things we’ve been asked to do, paper collage seems to have caused some of the greatest moments of anxiety amongst my fellow students. The exercise asks us to take a photograph of a ‘messy’ corner (and many of us I’m sure have joked, well, that’s easy, the hard thing would have been finding a tidy corner…) and to create six collages based on the photograph three of different types initially, then three more working from one of the first three. I must admit I like collage. ![]() a collection or combination of various things. Collage ˈkɒlɑːʒ,kəˈlɑːʒ/(noun) a piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric on to a backing. ![]()
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