ART & CULTURE
FINE ART COLLAGE: NOT YOUR CHILDHOOD SCRAPBOOK By Nelia Verano “Collage is the cut, the tear, the rupture and the overlay of our contemporary culture. It is the hybrid language of urbanity—remixed, re-contextualized, and wholly built from the fragments of daily life.” – Pavel Zoubok
Collage, a term most often as-
the Bechtler Museum of Modern
sociated with magazine clippings,
Art in Charlotte, North Carolina
newspaper cut-outs, or photo-
notes, “The medium of collage first
graphs pasted together to form a
emerged in conjunction with mod-
new whole, is an art form that was
ernism in the early twentieth centu-
coined by Cubist artists Georges
ry and offered a new working meth-
Braque and Pablo Picasso, and
od for artists, and later musicians
originating from the French word
and writers, to interpret their ex-
coller (to glue). While collage has
periences by re-contextualizing ex-
been around for centuries, the
istent imagery by removing it from
medium of collage gained traction
its original context and placing it in
in the early 1900’s as an avante
a new one.”
garde art form, and later through
Collages are made from a range
pioneers such as German artist
of materials, both found and creat-
Hannah Hoch and American artist
ed, but artistic collages are generally
Man Ray. After years of what seemed like a hibernation period
made with paper featuring anything from photographs to exist-
for collage, this art form has made a comeback, especially among
ing paintings or drawings to three-dimensional objects. Most of
experimentally-driven multi-media artists, and the rise of pop
us were introduced to collage art as children, in part because of
culture’s heavy influence on art using iconic and familiar imagery.
the availability of print material, the ease of the medium, and its
Anastasia James, Deputy Director for Art and Education at
multi-sensory process that developed fine-motor skills (such as
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