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Collage portraits
Artist Examples
HistoryKurt Schwitters
Kurt Schwitters, Das Undbild, 1919,
All though the technique of combining media has been around for hundreds of years. Kurt Schwitters pioneered the reemergence during early 20th Century.
HistoryKurt Schwitters
Hannah Höch, Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar
Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919
Hannah Hoch used a the technique ‘photomontage’ to comment on society using the tabloids and newspapers as imagery.
Hannah Hoch
History
Tom Wesselmann, Still Life #20, mixed media, collage, 1962,
Tome Wesselmann used a technique called ‘Cubomania’ where you cut up an image into squares and rearrange.
Tom Wesselmann
Technique
Romare Bearden, The Calabash, collage, 1970, Library of Congress
Romare Bearden
Romare Bearden used photographic techniques to print images onto paper and then collaged them together and sealed with a varnish.
Technique
Nina Valkoft, Collage 'Portrait' 2000
Nina Valkoft
Nina uses black and white newspaper cut into shapes to pickup
on tone which forms the face.
Notice there is only about 6 tones of grey.
Technique
Derek Gores, Collage 'Portrait'
Derek Gores
Derek uses a similar technique but with coloured magazines.
Notice how there is a limited palette.
Technique
Contrasting Colours
Technique
Standout backgrounds
Technique
Stencil Over
Cubist Style
Technique
Made up by smaller
images
Technique
Impressive detail
Technique
TASK: Create a expressive collage self-portrait
1. Draw your own face, from memory, in pencil
and with as much detail as possible
2. Recycle magazines to fill your self-portrait. Consider the mood of the image and how you will express that.
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