COLLAGE and MIXED MEDIA

The marriage of line and shape

COLLAGE

From “coller” (Fr.) = to paste,

to stick, to glue

Henri Matisse, The Snail, Cut painted paper, 1953

Picasso, Violin, 1912

Name the artists. How are they similar? How are they different?

Kurt Schwitters c. 1925

How does this diagram relate to these two collages?

James Rosenquist, For Love, photo silk screen

David Salle, Contemporary American

Makes paintings in layered, collage style

Do you see an image used twice?

Carlo Carra, 1920’s Futurist collage. What is this type of composition called?

Homage to Jasper Johns

DADA Collages, 1920’SSchwitters (L) and Hausmann (R)

Mixed media collage by Basquiat

Robert Gober

Student collage. Map, acrylic, ink

Ghada Amer, Egyptian-born, lives in NYC. Mixed media, stitched and painted image on paper

Jean Michel Basquiat

Shahzia Sikander, contemporary Pakistani -born artist, works in NY.

Mixed media painting

Julie Mehretu

Born, Ethiopia, educated Rhode Island and Senegal, lives and works in NYC

Ellen Gallagher

Robert Rauschenberg, Canyon. 1959, Mixed Media “Combine painting”. Combines lines, shapes and forms

Julian Schnabel, mixed media on canvas

Nobu Fukui, Japanese, lives in NYC, contemporary, mixed media on canvas

Detail, mixed media painting by Nobu Fukui