Figurative collages portrait/figure in landscape.

Collage means A collage (From the french word “coller” which means glue.) a form of art in which various materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric are arranged together to form a new piece of art. This term was coined by both Georges Braque and Pablo PicassoGeorges Braque and Pablo Picasso

History of collage Birth 1912 with Pablo Picassos Still life with chair caning.

Timeline Techniques of collage were first used at the time of the invention of paper in china (200 BC) Cubism 1907 and 1911 in France Dada Early Pop art 1956

Three ways to use collage ①Using collage as color ②Shape ③Using collage literally for what the photo depicts.

①color (like a mosaic)

②Using collage For shape 1. Direktion R. Housmann 1920Raoul Weiller

③represent itself (Using lips as lips)

Step one ①Create a background for your figure using collage.

Step two ②Searching and gathering from various magazines and newspapers for figure. Let the collage guide your decision making, be open to new discoveries!

Step three ③Glue final figure arrangement

Step four Add details to figure and background

Step five ④Incorporate pop culture references What? Examples (what defines pop culture today) Products to define 2011) Why? To tell future students what was going on in your world.

Power, Duracell, portable device

How artists talk about their time, generation. Robert Rauschenberg 60’s-70’s

Richard Hamilton- mid 1950s talking about.. far

FINAL POP Shape Color Object representing itself

Goals ①Art work must have two collage methods (using collage as color, shape and using collage literally for what the photo depicts) ②Must incorporate a POP culture reference that says something about the our time ③ A figure and environment ④No white / exposed paper.

DO NOT RUSH THIS IS A FINAL PRODUCT TAKE TIME TO SEARCH FOR GREAT COLLAGE TAKE TIME TO FILL IN THE SPACE YOU CAN ALWAYS COVER UP YOUR MISTAKES!

Cutting Hold blade at a 40 degree angle Cut away from your hands Blade should always face in the direction you are cutting Use magazine as cushion Cut close to the object. Do not leave bits of background from the photo.

Gluing Spread liquid glue thin and all the way to the edges. Glue sticks- glue on a covered surface Press and rub flat. No bubbling!!

Be cautious Exacto knives are very sharp!