I love Collage Art
Collage art is something we can all relate to. Many of us first
experimented with it as youngsters, creating humble masterpieces for
family and friends with scissors, pages from old magazines or
newspapers, and glue. Far less humble masterpieces have been created by
the likes of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and many more famous collage
artists who have followed in their distinguished footsteps.
But what is collage art today?
The term comes from the French papiers collés (glued paper). While some
people trace collage back to the invention of paper (in China, in 200
BC) or to 10th-century Japan (when calligraphers applied glued paper to
surfaces when writing poetry), Picasso and Braque are credited with
bringing the art form into the modern age. Dadaists and surrealists
found collage right up their alley: What better way for Dadaists to
express a rejection of logic and an embrace of chaos? For surrealists to
explore the spaces between dream and reality, to allow the unconscious
to express itself? Part of the beauty of collage is its flexibility: It
can employ many different media, including painting and drawing, paper,
photomontage, wood, mosaic—and of course, today, digital media. Artists
draw inspiration from many sources.
Read the full article from Jenny Carless here