Courtesy Mai 36 Galerie.Īfter pioneers of Cubism and Pop Art, a pioneer of Conceptual Art is up next. Archival digital prints with crayon and tape on graph paper – 42.5 × 40.3 cm. John Baldessari, Intersection Series: Woman (With Cigarette) and Weight Lifter (Maquette), 2002. As a result, in this article we are pleased to present you an extensive and reasoned selection of the most important collage artists in the world. Pablo Picasso) are seen as the earliest forms of collage art in Western art history, resulting in the term ‘collage’ derived from the French word coller – which means ‘to glue’ or ‘to stick’.Įver since, Collage Art would play it’s role in art history, as a favorite art form for Cubists, Dadaists, Pop Artists, or in today’s art world – think of the digital collages by Jorg Karg, or collage as a strategy for painters in an era dominated by appropriation and the recycling of existing images. Georges Braque) and Picasso’s Still Life with Chair Caning (see featured image at 1. Braque’s Fruit Dish and Glass (see featured image at 24. We travel back in time to the start of the 20th century in France, where collage would find its way to the realms of high art in 1912, orchestrated by Cubism’s greatest masters, Pablo Picasso & Georges Braque (cf.
Doing so, the distinction between collage and assemblage can often be fluid. However, collage artists can still implement three-dimensional objects onto their two-dimensional surface. In this case, the artist creates rather a sculpture by manner of assemblage instead of a painting or a work on paper. We stress the two-dimensional character of Collage Art, hence it’s three-dimensional sibling: Assemblage Art. But what is collage exactly, and how did it become part of high art?Ĭollage is an art form and technique in which individual pieces or materials – think of pieces of paper or photographs – are assembled into a new and autonomous artwork with a predominantly two-dimensional character. In the 21st century, collage has comfortably established itself as, a form of contemporary art.
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