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Illustration Techniques One: Collage | From Picasso through Dada and Pop Art to Contemporary Collage
This document provides an overview of collage as an artistic technique, tracing its history from early 20th-century avant-garde movements to contemporary applications. It discusses how artists like Picasso, Braque, and Rauschenberg used collage to critique society and express new meanings, evolving alongside movements such as Dada and Pop Art. The document also highlights the impact of digital processing on modern collage techniques and their diverse uses in art and popular culture.
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- 1. Introduction to Illustration Illustration techniques 1: Collage All artwork is copyright of the artist. Where possible all artists have been named and all artwork dated. This document should be used for educational purposes only. Bill Zindel Explaining the Atom 2010
- 2. MCD5190 Illustration |Illustration technique 1 | Collage History of Collage as artistic technique Collage as technique has a long history in modern art. It first became popular in the experimental and avant-garde movements of the early 1900s. Collage was popular for mixing up textures, type and pictures, different materials, colours and shapes. The technique was used to break up the barrier between art and ordinary life by integrating elements of both. Among the first artists to work with collage were Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, shortly after the turn of the century.
- 3. Still life withchair caning, Pablo Picasso, 1912
- 4. Georges Braque GlassCarafe and Newspapers 1914 In the 1920s, artists involved with an art movement called Dada made use of collage for its conceptual connotations of fragmentation, recombination and the breaking up of order and organisation. Dada artists chose abstract collage over more identifiable subject matter because it suited their wish to deconstruct a bourgeouis society they felt responsible for the upheaval of the war. Here are some examples from the period, from Dada artists and others influenced by the movement
- 5. The Skat players, Otto Dix, 1920 Artists like Otto Dix were not affiliated with Dada but used similar methods and techniques, such as collage. This picture is a comment on Germany’s conservative society showing war veterans clinging on to pastimes such as traditional card games in spite of their horrific war injuries.
- 6. Cut with theDada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, Hannah Höch, 1919 Dada artists were explicit in their criticism, as this picture and its title show. The use of collage has the dual effect of creating a sense of fragmentation and chaos, of overturning old rules, while also integrating elements of contemporary life.
- 7. Merzpicture thirty-one KurtSchwitters 1920 Under National Socialism much of Expressionist and Dada art was deemed “degenerate art” and artists had to flee the country, forbidden to exhibit and sell their artwork and expropriated. Avant-Garde art had been thriving in Europe, but the coming war put an end to the activity of many.
- 8. Raoul Hausmann DadaCino 1920
- 9. The Holy Nightby Antoni Allegri, known as Correggio Kurt Schwitters 1947 Some artists such as Kurt Schwitters took up the technique of collage after the war, but the times had changed. New art movements emerged, and artists took up collage as an art form to express new meanings.
- 10. Odalisk, Robert Rauschenberg, 1955-58 The pop art movement, for instance, was also interested in art and its relationship to lived experience, but in a much less critical way. This new generation of artists was focused on popular culture and more likely to be based in the USA rather than in Europe, although many influential artists were in fact migrants who had fled the war.
- 11. Monogram, Robert Rauschenberg, 1955-59
- 12. Retroactive II RobertRauschenberg 1964 What remained important in these pop-art collages was the use of the technique to refer to contemporary life, rather than to make more general statements. Whether critical or not, collage continued to be an artistic comment on society at the time, for instance in this artwork by Robert Rauschenberg.
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- 14. Bathtub No. 3, Tom Wesselmann, 1963
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- 17. Sex Pistols, GodSave The Queen single cover 1977 As a vehicle for social criticism collage has found its way into popular culture, for instance in this record cover, including allusions to ransom notes.
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- 30. Bill Zindel Explainingthe Atom 2010
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