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Collageand
Assemblage
http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/shonibare/swing.html
A brief history . . .
CollageFrench word coller = glue.It refers to an assemblage of mixed media used on a two dimensional surface applied with glue. Materials may include: drawing pencils, paint, textiles, newspaper, scrap papers, photographs … even found objects.
• 200 BC China: Calligraphers integrated poetry/text + image• Medieval Europe: gold leafing integrated within iconic imagery in Gothic Cathedrals• In the 19th century, collaging became a “hobby,” a precursor for scrapbooking
**Art Historians consider collages’ birth coming out of Modernism inthe early 20th century**
2-Dimensional Collages…
Modern Artists: Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
Fruitdish and Glass, 1912, papier collé and charcoal on paper
Compotier avec fruits, violon et verre
Pittsburgh Memory 1964 Profile/Part I, The Twenties: Pittsburgh Memories, Farewell Eugene, 1978collage of various papers with paint, ink, graphite, and bleached areas on fiberboard
Photomontage: Romare Bearden
Entfaltung 2008 Oil on canvas 118.11 x 98.43 inches, 300 x 250 cm
Collage Paintings: Neo Rauch
Pfad2003
3-Dimensional Collages…
READY MADE / Found OBJECT art An artwork made from everyday objects or manufactured goods, which have been “appropriated” and used for an alternative purpose—art.The ready-made opened the door for ASSEMBLAGE (3D Collage) Materials: Anything goes! Shoelaces, tree branches, tables, taxidermy animals ….even toilets!
Marcel DuchampFountain1917
Ready-Made / Assemblage Timeline•Picasso: non-traditional media,1900’s•Duchamp: Ready-Made/Found Object: 1917 •Joseph Cornell: Cabinets 1940’s•First use of the word Assemblage: Jean Dubuffet’s butterflies, 1950’s•Louise Nevelson’s scrap wood, 1950’s – 80’s
Bicycle Wheel
Jean Dubuffet Butterfly 1953
2D into 3D:
Collage transforms into Assemblage:even more mixed media…
Robert RauschenbergCanyon, 1959, Assemblage: oil, housepaint, pencil, paper, fabric, metal, buttons, nails, cardboard, printed paper, photographs, wood, paint tubes, mirror string, pillow & bald eagle on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Retroactive I, 1963
Robert Rauschenberg
Bed. 1955
Hotel Eden, 1945
Cabinets of Curiosity, Memory Boxes (3-dimensional souvenir/keepsakes)
Joseph Cornell
Untitled (Paul & Virginia) 1946 - 1948
Louise Nevelson, Sky Cathedral, 1982
"When you put together things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the
life for which they were originally created.”Louise Nevelson
Vik Muniz
Vik Muniz, Narcissus, after Caravaggio, from "Pictures of Junk", 2006
Spiritual Assemblages: Hindu Shrines, Catholic Shrines, Bicycle Shrines
Sept 9-Oct. 14, 2006
Jessica Stockholder
Wicker chair, plastic tub, light fixture with bulb, synthetic polymer, oil paint, plastic, fabric, concrete, resin, wood, wheels, acrylic yarn, glass and cookie in resin, 71 1/2 x 63 x 50 inches, 1995
"Lights plug into the wall and call attention to the electrical wires that are in the wall. It’s static to look at these light bulbs. They don’t do anything. It’s a static, still image that the lights present. But it is an event because
electricity moves, and the electricity is active in the wall. So, conceptually, I like it that the stillness of the work is disrupted."
- Jessica Stockholder
"Kissing the Wall #2“ 1988Slide projector screen, newspaper, plaster, oil and acrylic paint, fluorescent tube with purple sleeve, wallpaper, 51 inches high
Jessica Stockholder— PBS interview on Art 21 series:http://video.pbs.org/video/1239627128
Vik Muniz TED talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/vik_muniz_makes_art_with_wire_sugar.html