collage - light, design, color and the silhouette
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designusing collage
Mixed Media Painting Fall 2015Glenn Hirsch, Instructor
the tradition of surrealist collage-space
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593)
analogy of shape
Man Ray
analogy of shape
Magritte
analogy of shape
Raoul Hausmann
analogy of shapeand figurative swaps
Bruce Conner
analogy of shapeand figurative swaps
“paper dolls”
Hannah Hoch
Hannah Hoch
“paper dolls”
Kara Walker
“paper dolls”
Marty Skocilich
Marty Skocilich
Marty Skocilich
Marty Skocilich
Design Exercise
Collage can be real or abstract.Make a background first, then select pieces for color as much
as for ‘idea.’
The collage must have:1. A “light” source 2. Rhythm through repetition of:
• triangles, squares, circles • parallel wavy lines• zigzagging lines• positive and negative shapes • including at least one silhouette
3. One large shape created by overlapping smaller of shapes of a similar color
the illusion of “light”
Repetition of geometric
shapes
Rhythm through repetition of:• triangles, squares, circles • parallel wavy lines• zigzagging lines• positive and negative shapes • including at least one silhouette
Aishlin Harrison
positive/negative shapes
silhouettes
Greg Sand
Scale: overlapping
shapes of similarcolor to create
one large shape
Aishlin Harrison
Collage can be real or abstract.Make a background first, then select pieces for color as much
as for ‘idea.’
The collage must have:1. A “light” source 2. Rhythm through repetition of:
• triangles, squares, circles • parallel wavy lines• zigzagging lines• positive and negative shapes • including at least one silhouette
3. One large shape created by overlapping smaller of shapes of a similar color