1. Harlem Renaissance Collage as an Art Form Using Perspective to Create the Illusion of Depth

2. Romare Bearden A famous African-American collage artist from the Harlem Renaissance

3. Bopping at Birdland

4. Mother and Child

5. Conversations

6. Black Manhattan

7. Rockets

9. Cattle of the Sun God

10. Collage Technique Remember Perspective Rules SIZE PLACEMENT OVERLAPPING CONVERGING LINES COLOR DETAIL

11. To Create Collage: Add layers starting from the back to the front. Arrange cut images, shapes and textures before gluing down. Don’t glue as you go in case you change your mind.

16. “The Sick Room” by Langston Hughes Ike Gladys

18. “Insomnia” Ismael Betancourt

20. Cut Carefully Cut around the contours of the object. You can also cut the shape out of a solid color for a silhouette

21. “Why Did You Make Me Black?” Robyn Eddmonds

23. Joana Valencia“Fantasy in Purple”

24. Textures Visual Textures such as sky, water, ground, hair can be created by using the Mosaic Technique of cutting up the right color and texture into small pieces and assembling into one larger area.

25. Cross My old man’s a white old man And my old mother’s black. If ever I cursed my white old man I take my curses back. If ever I cursed my black mother And wished she were in hell, I’m sorry for that evil wish And now I wish her well. My old man died in a fine big house. My ma died in a shack. I wonder where I’m going to die Being neither white nor black? Langston Hughes La’Keysha Johnson

26. Jessica Cabildo

27. Luis Herrera“The Sick Room” by Langston Hughes

28. Vanessa Herrera“Sonnet 73” by William Shakespeare

29. Samantha Gonzalez

30. Creating Images A whole image can be created from several parts….

31. Rockets

32. Another Collage Movement The surrealists were some of the first artists to use collage as a medium. They assembled all sorts of images to create strange dreamworlds. These are the same people who invented the Exquisite Corpse game.

33. Ladislov Guderna

34. Gary Lee

35. Mina Loy