Day 42 Bell stART ELEMENTS of DESIGN

Write in your sketch book:

Collage--An artistic composition of materials and objects pasted over a surface, often with unifying lines and color.

Self-Portraits are due today

Origin of Collage

• can be traced back hundreds of years

• technique made a dramatic reappearance in the early 20th century as an art form of novelty.

• term collage derives from the French "coller" meaning "glue“

• in the beginning of the 20th century term was coined by both Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso when collage became a distinctive part of Modern art

Pablo Picasso, Still Life with Chair-Caning, 1911-1912. Oil and pasted paper simulating chair-caning on canvas

Pablo Picasso,Glass and Bottle of Suze

(1912)Pasted paper, gouche

and charcoal,25 ¾” X 19 ¾”

Your assignment is to construct a “Surrealistic” collage.

Surrealism

• a style in which fantastical visual imagery from the subconscious mind is used with no intention of making the work logically comprehensible.

• Founded by Andre Breton in 1924, it was a primarily European movement that attracted many members of the chaotic Dada movement.

• deeply influenced by the psychoanalytic work of Freud and Jung.

Mystery and Melancholy of a Street.

1914. Oil on canvas. 88 x 72 cm.

Private collection. 

MAX ERNST, Two Children Are Threatened

by a Nightingale, 1924. Oil on wood with

wood construction, 2’ 3 1/2” x 1’ 10 1/2” x 4 1/2”.

Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Salvador Dali with ocelot and cane

1965

Dali, he worked with Alfred Hitchcock, can you tell?

SALVADOR DALÍ, The Persistence of Memory, 1931. Oil on canvas, 9 1/2” x 1’ 1”. Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Rene Magritte, Les Valeurs Personnelles

Joseph Cornell-"Untitled (Tilly Losch)" 1935-38

Surrealistic CollageThis week’s objective:

• Thumb through magazines in search of images to use for a “Surrealistic” collage.

• Cut the images from photographs you find in the magazines and begin to place them in a new arrangement.

• Glue the images onto the paper provided• Images must cover the entire picture plane• Picture plane should be within ½“ of the edge of the

paper.• Your collage is due by the end of class on Friday,

10/25

Day 43 Bell stART ELEMENTS of DESIGN

Write in your sketch book: Simply stated, juxtaposition means placing things

side-by-side. In art this usually is done with the intention of bringing out a specific quality or creating an effect, particularly when two contrasting or opposing elements are used.

Discuss with your tablemates:What specific quality or effect are you trying to

create in your collage?

Day 44 Bell stART ELEMENTS of DESIGN

Write in your sketch book:

Today’s Goal:• work on your collage• Consider the values of the magazine images you

choose, the finished collage will be duplicated in gray scale with a copy machine

• And remember to K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple student)

Day 45 Bell stART ELEMENTS of DESIGN

Write In your sketch book:

Good craftsmanship is essential for the completion of a “high quality” collage.

Discuss with your tablemates what methods will insure a “high quality” collage. Be prepared to share your criteria with the class.

Day 46 Bell stART ELEMENTS of DESIGN

Write in your sketch book:

Completed collage must be handed into your Teacher with your name and period number on the back

by the end of today’s class.