There are very few basic materials you need to begin collage work. You can work for months to cover even a fraction but, I ended up trying those that appealed to me and I hope this beginning collage post will help you get started on this fun, enriching, relaxing activity of making art collages. Using ShapeArt select random photos from Gallery and make shaped collage, change background image and decorate as per your liking. Of course, I barely touched the amount of collage ideas that were in those books. These are mostly paper collages even though I do know that assemblages are part of collage I do not cover that here. To write about more concrete collage ideas I went through the 5 books I own on collage and started making lists of which collages I was going to do so that I could post them here. (As I get more comfortable with the other type of collage work I will post about that)
In order to create collages we are often asked to paste random papers together to form some kind of artwork.Īs I am not so proficient or very comfortable with this kind of collage work I knew that in order to get you interested in doing collages, I had to bring you collage art ideas that were more down to earth and not symbolic. So choose a simple shape that you think you would be able to cut out a lot of. I find that many of the collage ideas and activities that are out there in museums are similar to this type of collage work which is symbolic and often non understandable without an explanation. Triangles, Rectangles and Squares are easy to cut out, circles are a bit harder.
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The second part, where I had to figure out how to get abstract ideas onto a canvas was not so much fun for me. I loved the beginning of the activity where we got to rip and glue and paint. I chose the Taj Mahal and the slums of Mumbai to show inequality in life and it ended up looking like the image on the right which I titled "Worlds Apart". We then had to use google earth images to depict things relating to either gender, place, time or equality. This was a progressive collage activity that I did at my Summer 2016 Columbus School for Art & Design Summer Educators program where we started by covering the canvas with pieces of ripped magazine, paint and anything else I could find. That is because collage is often presented as the type of activity I did shown in the image above. They can be abstract or very realistic.Ĭollage can be intimidating to some. Shape Collage by Figure Form canvas art print arrives ready to hang, with hanging accessories included and no additional framing required. To define collage we can say that a collage is a piece of artwork made by gluing bits of paper and fabrics to some kind of background like paper, cardboard or canvas. That's if you understand what a collage is. A nationally ranked private university located near the heart of Dallas, SMU is a distinguished center for global research with a liberal arts tradition. This is not a definitive list.Collage ideas are everywhere. Follow the diagram below, placing all your negative shapes first, lining up corners and straight edges. So, I used my own judgement and did the best I could. Lay out all your shapes on the black paper, before you do any gluing. In fact, I was surprised that few of the articles I read even mentioned any of the same artists! When I compared popular books on the subject, ditto. In my attempt to identify the top collage artists working today, I found that there was little to no consensus. In addition, please note that I didn’t include digital or assemblage artists I’m saving them for later posts. I also wanted to represent a wide variety of styles. Trace out leaf shapes on this paper and cut them out. My choices were based on my own personal taste, as well as a desire to focus on artists who had achieved a certain degree of success and notoriety. Press the bubble wrap on the painted sheet. No one wants to read a 5,000-word blog post, any more than I have the time or inclination to write one. Just to be clear, there are literally tons of talented and accomplished collage artists whose work is not included here. Their innovations, dedication to collage as fine art, and overall quality of execution have helped to bring collage to a wider audience.
In this post, I’ll share the work of some of my favorite contemporary collage artists. In a previous post, “The Art of Collage, part 1”, I introduced some early pioneers in the genre who helped collage to gain acceptance as a legitimate art form.
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