Intro. to FINAL PROJECT: Collage and its’ Transformations

Collage French word coller = to glue. A collection of mixed media used on a two dimensional surface applied with glue. Materials: ribbon, paint, fabric, newspaper, scrap papers, photographs, found objects...

200 BC China: Calligraphers integrated poetry/text + image Medieval Europe: gold leafing integrated in Gothic Cathedrals 19th century: “hobby,” precursor to scrap-booking **Art Historians consider collages’ birth to be 20 th century Modernism** A brief Timeline…

2-Dimensional Collages…

“Modern” Collage: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque Fruitdish and Glass, 1912, papier collé and charcoal on paper Compotier avec fruits, violon et verre

Pittsburgh Memory 1964 Profile/Part I, The Twenties: Pittsburgh Memories, Farewell Eugene, 1978 collage of various papers with paint, ink, graphite, and bleached areas on fiberboard Photomontage: Romare Bearden

Entfaltung Oil on canvas x inches 2008 Painting Collage: Neo Rauch Pfad 2003

“Collage cannot be defined adequately as merely a technique of cutting and pasting, for its’ significance lies not in its’ technical eccentricity but in its’ relevance to two basic questions which have been raised by 20 th century art: the nature of reality and the nature of painting itself. Collage has been the means through which the artist incorporates reality in the picture without imitating it.” Margaret Miller, curator, catalogue “Collage” exhibition, 1948, Museum of Modern Art, NYC

3-Dimensional Collages…

READY MADE / Found OBJECT art An artwork made from everyday objects or manufactured goods, which have been “appropriated” and used for an alternative purpose—art. The ready-made opened the door for ASSEMBLAGE (3D Collage) Materials: Anything goes! Shoelaces, tree branches, tables, taxidermy animals ….even toilets! Marcel Duchamp Fountain 1917

Ready-Made / Assemblage Timeline Picasso: non-traditional media,1900’s Duchamp: Ready-Made/Found Object: 1917 Joseph Cornell: Cabinets 1940’s First use of the word Assemblage : Jean Dubuffet’s butterflies, 1950’s Louise Nevelson’s scrap wood, 1950’s – 80’s Bicycle Wheel

Jean Dubuffet 1953

2D into 3D: Collage transforms into Assemblage: even more mixed media…

Robert Rauschenberg Canyon, 1959, Assemblage: oil, housepaint, pencil, paper, fabric, metal, buttons, nails, cardboard, printed paper, photographs, wood, paint tubes, mirror string, pillow & bald eagle on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Robert Rauschenberg

Jessica Stockholder Wicker chair, plastic tub, light fixture with bulb, synthetic polymer, oil paint, plastic, fabric, concrete, resin, wood, wheels, acrylic yarn, glass and cookie in resin, 71 1/2 x 63 x 50 inches, 1995

"Lights plug into the wall and call attention to the electrical wires that are in the wall. It’s static to look at these light bulbs. They don’t do anything. It’s a static, still image that the lights present. But it is an event because electricity moves, and the electricity is active in the wall. So, conceptually, I like it that the stillness of the work is disrupted." - Jessica Stockholder Of Standing Float Roots In Thin Air 2006

Liz Mamorsky San Francisco, CA

Boxed Assemblages: Cabinets of Curiosity

WUNDERKAMMER!

Of Cabinets, Wiki says the following: "A cabinet of curiosities was an encyclopedic collection in Renaissance Europe of types of objects whose categorical boundaries were yet to be defined.... Modern terminology would categorize the objects included as belonging to natural history (sometimes faked), geology, ethnography, archaeology, religious or historical relics, works of art (including cabinet paintings) and antiquities. The Kunstkammer was regarded as a microcosm or theater of the world, and a memory theater. The Kunstkammer conveyed symbolically the patron's control of the world through its indoor, microscopic reproduction."

L'Egypte de Mlle Cleo de Merode, cours élémentaire d'histoire naturelle 4 11/16 x 10 11/16 x 7 ¼” 1940 Joseph Cornell

Hotel Eden 15 x 15 ¾ x 4 ¾” 1945

Untitled (Paul & Virginia ) 10 x 16 7/16 x 3 ¾”

Medici Princess 17 7/8 x 11 1/8 x 4 3/8” 1948 Medici Prince 15 ½ x 11 ½ x 5” 1952

"When you put together things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.” Louise Nevelson

1)Established THEME 2)One BOX / CABINET / CONTAINER 1)A Collection of 2D & 3D OBJECTS—related to your THEME ( big or small objects you don’t mind cropping/cutting/re-purposing) 1)Equipment you anticipate needing to adhere/attach/crop objects (I will provide hot glue/gun, nails/screws hand-held saw, staple gun, hammer etc.) For FINAL 2-part project Cabinet of Curiosities Bring in 2 weeks:

Nature Time The Cosmos Spirituality War & Peace Technology Pick a THEME…

BRING NEXT WEEK Brainstorm final project Canvas Stretcher Bars (minimum = 16 x 20”) Suggested: * Gesso Brush (opt. if you own one) * Staple Gun + Staples (opt. if you own one)