MIXED MEDIA

Introduction.

Pre-21st Century Mixed Media

Wrack: From the "Bertoloni Album,"

1839William Henry Fox Talbot

(British, 1800–1877)Photogenic drawing

8 11/16 x 6 7/8 in.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

Anna Atkins(1799 –1871)

cyanotypes

from 1842…

Anna Atkins(1799 –1871)

cyanotypes

from 1842…

Oscar G. Rejlander  The Two Ways of Life  1857

Henry Peach Robinson  Nor' Easter  1890

John P. Morrissey  Composite Photograph  1896

German Postcard  Anon  1902

Man With the Rubber Head  Film Still  1902

Picasso + Collage

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973)Bottle of Vieux Marc, Glass, Guitar and Newspaper, 1913

Collage and pen and ink on blue paper, 46.7 x 62.5 cmTate Gallery, London

Contemporary Mixed Media Glass and Bottle of Suze (1912)

is one of the Picasso's first collages

Georges Braque(1882 -1963)

Fruitdish and Glass, papier collé and charcoal

on paper, 1912.

Georges Braque

Violin and Candlestick, Paris, spring 1910, at the

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

John Heartfield

(1891–1968)

Blood and Iron (1934)

Photomontage

John Heartfield

Adolph, the Superman: Swallows Gold and Spouts Junk, Photomontage

1932

Kurt Schwitters (20 June 1887 - 8 January 1948) , The Proposal, 1942

Collage on paper, 31.9 x 39.5 cmTate Gallery, London

Alongside his collages, Schwitters also dramatically altered the interiors of a number of spaces throughout his life. The most famous was The Merzbau…

< The Merzbau, 1933

Kurt Schwitters  Kots  1930

Man Ray(1890 –1976)

Rayograph "Champs délicieux" n°06

Rayograph

(1922)

Man Ray

Le Violon d'Ingres

(1924)

Joseph Cornell (December 24, 1903 – December 29, 1972) , Untitled (Medici Boy), 1942-52Mixed media sculpture

Untitled (Cockatoo with Watch Faces), about 1949, Joseph Cornell

Object (Abeilles) 1940 (190 Kb); Construction, 9 1/8 x 14 1/8 x 3 7/16 in; Collection Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Wiseman, Beverly Hills, CA

Untitled (Apollinaris) c. 1954 (170 Kb);

Construction, 15 15/16 x 9 3/4 x 4 3/8 in; Collection

Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Bergman, Chicago

The Exquisite Corpse

Le cadavre exquis

André Breton, Jacqueline Lamba,

Yves TanguyCadavre exquis [Exquisite Corpse] 9 February 1938

Picasso, Dora Maar & Olivier Larronde, April 1945

Cadavre Exquis. (French), Man Ray. (American, 1890-1976), Joan Miró. (Spanish, 1893-1983), Max Morise. (French, 1900-1973) and Yves Tanguy. (American, born France. 1900-1955). Nude. (1926-27). Composite drawing of ink, pencil, and crayon on paper.

An example of The Exquisite Corpse…. (via Museum of Modern Art)André Breton. (French, 1896-1966), Cadavre Exquis. (French), Max Morise. (French, 1900-1973), Pierre Naville. (French, 1900-1993), Benjamin Péret. (French, 1899-1959), Jacques Prévert. (French, 1900-1977), Jeannette Tanguy and Yves Tanguy. (American, born France. 1900-1955). Figure. (1928). Composite collage of cut-and-pasted printed paper on paper.

An Exquisite Corpse drawing created by Diarmuid, Alan and Molly.

Wikipedia entry: Exquisite corpse (also known as "exquisite cadaver" or "rotating corpse") is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled, the result being known as the exquisite corpse or cadavre exquis in French. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule (e.g. "The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun") or by being allowed to see the end of what the previous person contributed.

The Drawing Center, New York, 1993

Jim Shaw, Sue Williams, and Nicole Eisemann

A. di Fabio, A. Twobly, D. Baechler

Chuck Close, Alexis Rockman, Mark Greenwald, and Dennis Kardon

a piece of paper is folded in three and passed 'round the room. One person draws a head, the next person draws a torso (without seeing the head, the paper still folded) and the final person draws the legs and feet (w/out seeing head or body). The paper unfolds to reveal an often hilarious, surreal, frightening figure, an 'exquisite corpse'

A printer's exquisite corpse. Madison, WI: Silver Buckle Press, 1992.

Jake & Dinos Chapman

Jake & Dinos Chapman

Head: Acrylic on paperTorso: PhotoshopLegs: Ink and Photoshop on text

(to be continued)