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The Painting Lesson
by Linda Carson
big black pig studio
98 King St. N., Waterloo Ontario Canada
www.bigblackpig.com
Collage
Collage—from the French word "coller" meaning "to glue"—is the art process of sticking stuff into or onto a painting or drawing. Is that cheating? As I like to say in the studio, "There are fewer rules than you think."
Artists who use collage contend that gluing in a newspaper clipping, for instance, instead of painting a hyperrealistic facsimile is more authentic, less affected, and less distracting to the viewer. They'd prefer the viewer to see the clipping as part of the overall image rather than zooming in on how perfectly illusionistic the copy might be.
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For example: The letters in this painting (above) aren't hand-painted. They're collaged in using Letraset (TM) rub-down lettering. |
The Cubists Picasso and Braque pioneered collage at the beginning of the twentieth century and—forgive the pun—it stuck. An analogous sculpture process emerged later called assemblage.
Back to the main lesson?Art & Text (C) Linda Carson 2002
Loosely translated, that means:
"Please don't copy this material or redistribute it
in some other form, for any reason.
This is my livelihood."