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Thursday, 12 April 2012
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Collage Exhibition Happening NOW!
- Tinning Street Presents..
. lot 5/29 Tinning Street, Brunswick 3056 a contemporary collage exhibition curated by Laura Couttie
Featuring...
Rupert Carr-Gregg
Zoe Croggon
Minna Gilligan
Lillian O'Neil
Georgia Robenstone
Tai Snaith
12th - 22nd April
Opening Night April 12th
6-9 pm
Collage through the ages...
Pablo Picasso 'Glass and Bottle of Suze' 1912
Collage
Pronunciation: \kə-ˈläzh, kȯ-, kō-\
Function: noun
Etymology: French, literally, gluing, from coller to glue, from colle glue, from Vulgar Latin *colla,kolla from Greek
Date: 1919
1 a : an artistic composition made of various materials (as paper, cloth, or wood) glued on a surface b : a creative work that resembles such a composition in incorporating various materials or elements
2 : the art of making collages
(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/collage)
Raoul Hausman 'The Art Critic' 1919-1920
A thoroughly modern medium, collage expressed the characteristics of the 20th Century - immediacy, the mass media and capitalism - through creative process and concept. Collage, coming from the French term coller, meaning glue, paste or stick, is the construction of pictures through the pasting of torn images.
John Heartfield 'Adolf the Superman: Swallows Gold and Sprouts Junk' 1932
According to the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, collage as an artform is much more than just simply making pictures. "It's a mode of perception, a multi-dimensional language with aesthetic implications that spans the histories of art, architecture, literature and music."
Kurt Schwitters 'The Proposal' 1942
Collage first emerged as a fine art medium in the form of papier colles, or pasted papers, from Cubists Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. Since, it has been an important medium throughout Modern art, showing up in Italian Futurism, Constructivism, Dada, Surrealism, Pop Art and Fluxus. Artists who worked in the collage medium included Kurt Schwitters, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell; who asserted that art could be made from anything. Abtract Expressionsist artists, such as Robert Motherwell, were attracted to the medium to expand their practice in abstract painting (IMCSC 2005).
David Hockney 'Pearblossom Hwy, 11th-18th April, 1986, #2' 1986
Contemporary artists use collage, and the closely related assemblage and mixed media, to construct a visual representation of their world and experiences, by using found objects and objects closely bound to the everyday; which viewers make an immediate identification to.
Peter Lewis 'The Birth of the Information Age' no date
Peter Lewis 'Tiki Touring' no date
As a medium, collage blurs the boundaries or bridges the dichotomy between high and low art or pop art; text and image; figuration and abstraction; past and present; and two and three dimensions (ibid). According to media theorist Marshall McLuhan. collage effectively breaks down perspectivalism, while at the same time emphasises the disparity of images or objects it juxtaposes.
Martin Smith 'Teevee #13' 1999
A collage is not just a bunch of random things pasted together. It is important to consider conventional design elements and principles such as composition, line, shape, colour, form, texture, etc; and what the images and objects in the collage represent and the meaning they add to the work. So before cutting and pasting, have a clear understanding of the message you want to send to your audience and the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of the work.
Traditional collage and practice and digital collage practice share the same characteristics, both immediate and seemingly simple, yet potentially tedious and complex.
Natsuki Kimura 'Gone' 2000
Further Reading:
Greenberg, Clement. "Collage (The Pasted Paper Revolution)." Art News 57.5 (September 1958): 46-49, ff.
Rosenberg, Harold. "Collage: Philosophy of Put-Togethers." Art on the Edge. New York: Macmillan, 1975.
Barthes, Roland. "The Rhetoric of the Image." Image-Music-Text. Trans. Stephen Heath. New York: Hill and Wang, 1977.
Waldman, Diane. Collage, Assemblage and the Found Object. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1992.
Wescher, Herta. Collage. Trans Robert E. Wolf. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1968.
Online resources for digital collage artists:
Jonathon Baker
Natsuki Kimura
Other resources:
Collageart.org
Wikipedia Entry
Other Collaging Techniques in PS
- You can rotate layers when you free transform (command T) by moving your cursor close to the corner, you will get a curved arrow which allows you to turn it around.
- Use the move tool to place layers into position.
- Use the magic wand tool (or quick selection tool) to select areas of similar value (i.e. colour), for cutting or copying.
- Use the clone stamp to transfer part of an image on to another, or onto the same image. Option click on the source, then with the clone stamp tool still selected, paint over the area you want changed.
- Don't forget that collage also incorporates painted, drawn and text elements. Feel free to paint, draw and type over your collage, using the paint brush or pencil tool and the text/type tool.
Layer Masks
A very fun, easy and effective way of putting collages together in Photoshop is by utilising Layer Masks.
With the two (or more) images open in Photoshop, select > copy > paste one image on top of another. You may want to resize the top image you have pasted. You can do this by Free Transforming it (edit > free transform, or command T), remembering if you want to constrain proportions you will need to hold down the shift key whilst resizing.
With the two (or more) images open in Photoshop, select > copy > paste one image on top of another. You may want to resize the top image you have pasted. You can do this by Free Transforming it (edit > free transform, or command T), remembering if you want to constrain proportions you will need to hold down the shift key whilst resizing.
Layer 1 ready to be free transformed.
Layer 1 transformed and moved into desired position. I will now hit enter (return) or the 'tick' on the properties bar to commit the layer.
I will now add a layer mask to Layer 1 by clicking on the 3rd button along the bottom of the layers palette.
With your paint brush tool selected, and the colour set to black, start painting over the parts of the layer you want to hide.
Black hides, while painting with white reveals, so if you make a mistake you can easily paint it back in with white.
Whoops... I hid too much of my layer... That's ok, I can reveal it again by painting with white!
Masks are very handy, as you aren't actually erasing or deleting part the images, they are always there to hide or reveal as you wish.
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
Photo Collage Tutorials
Several tutorials in photoshop collage.
http://www.photoshopwebsite.com/photoshop-tutorials/30-top-montage-photoshop-tutorials/
http://www.photoshopwebsite.com/photoshop-tutorials/30-top-montage-photoshop-tutorials/
Friday, 30 March 2012
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