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Art 2: Collage Challenge
Collage comes from the French word "coller", meaning "to paste." Artists started creating collages in the early 1900s.  Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were two of the first artists to create in this medium. 
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The current definition  of collage is: 
" An artistic composition of materials and objects pasted over a surface, 
often with unifying lines and color."   

Mixed media art and collage are very hot right now in the creative world.  I have several books and there is a crazy amount of information, ideas and techniques on the Internet.  Feel free to experiment!!

Here's a great article about beginning collage: Collaging for Beginners

You have three options with this challenge. 

​1)  Social Issue Collage
Research artist Romare Bearden (1911-1988) and his artwork. He was a collage artist who used his work to give voice to the African American experience in America.  (Romare's website)  
He dealt with daily life and social issues.  If you choose this option, I will ask you to pick a social issue and create a collage that teaches about this issue and your feelings about it.  
Include: facts and statistics about your issue, printed imagery, created imagery (your own artwork), lettering, quotes, etc.  

2. Cut Paper Black and White Self Portrait/Important Person Portrait
Using black and white paper, cut pieces to create a self portrait of yourself from the waist up, holding an object that tells something about you.  Include a border and as many details as you can.  Then create a portrait of someone close to you OR someone famous that you like or admire.
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3.  Nonobjective Collage Series:  
Choose five colors (including black and white) to use in a series of 4 collages.  Repeat patterns and shapes so the pieces look like they belong in a group.  Paint 12 x 18 light paper pieces texturally to use in the collages. You may also draw and paint right on the collages.
Here is a link to a contemporary Vermont collage artist who explored this idea: Jane Davies Studios

Check out her other work, too.  She's got some great stuff on her website! Examples of her work below:
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Blog Post:
1. What is the most important thing you have to pay attention to when creating a collage, no matter the subject matter?
2.  Critique your work.  What was successful about your collage(s), what did you struggle with, and what did you learn?

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  • HOME
  • ART 1
    • Drawing Exercises
    • Drawing Challenge
    • Painting Challenge
    • ABC Scavenger Hunt
    • Paper Plate Sculpture Challenge
    • Digital Pop Art Portrait
    • Glidden's Guernica
    • Clay Challenge
    • Curiosity Project
    • Digital Art History Poster
    • Pastel/Oil Pastel Master Study
    • Song Lyric Design Challenge
    • Options
    • Term Test Project: Personal Squares
  • ART 2
    • Drawing Exercises
    • Surrealism Drawing Challenge
    • Painting Challenge
    • Collage Challenge
    • Clay Tile
    • Design Challenge
    • Digital Letter Art
    • Digital Layered Landscape
    • Pen and Ink Challenge
    • Linoleum Block Printing
    • Colored Pencil Challenge
    • Word Art Challenge
    • Term Test Project: Variations on a Theme
  • ART 3
    • Relief Paper Drawing Exercise
    • Drawing Challenge
    • Extreme Perspective Challenge
    • Abstract and Nonobjective Painting
    • Pastel/Oil Pastel Challenge
    • Clay Challenge
    • Watercolor Challenge
    • Digital Challenge: Biographical Collage
    • Ipad Pro and Apple Pencil
    • Digital Media Tribute
    • Digital Positive Message Video
    • Throwing on the Wheel
    • Lighted Paper Sculpture
    • Newspaper Sculpture
    • Creative Lettering Challenge
    • Term Test Project - Handmade Book
  • ART 4
    • Senior Square/One Powerful Word
    • Drawing Challenge
    • Creative Tool Painting
    • Innocent/Sinister
    • Collage Mask Challenge
    • Creative Photo Challenge
    • Contemporary Sculpture
    • Oil Pastel/Pastel Challenge
    • Clay Challenge
    • Colored Pencil Challenge
    • Digital Art Options
    • Throwing on the Wheel
    • 8 Idea Challenge
    • Final Test Project Options
  • ART PORTFOLIO
    • Senior Square
    • "Choice" Word
    • 6 Word Memoir/Life Mantra
    • Creative Canvas OR Creative Tools Painting
    • Poetry Inspired Design
    • Conversation Fragments
    • Wood Burning
    • Set Your Restraints
    • Book Sculpture
    • Thank You!
    • Senior Tray
  • 7TH ART
    • Elements and Principles of Design Poster
    • Color Theory Watercolor
    • Clay Cupcake Pedestal
    • Board Game Design
    • Self Portrait of the Future
    • Line Pattern Design
    • Digital Self Portrait
    • 10 Symbol Grid
    • Industrial Design: Design a Guitar
  • 8TH ART
    • The King's Sandwich
    • Drawing Exercises
    • 4 Square Shaded Drawing
    • Sun and Moon Design Challenge
    • Roy Lichtenstein Cartoons
    • Calligraphy
    • Identity Box
    • Keith Haring Poster
    • Digital Art Quote
    • Design Your Own Project
  • MISC.
    • GR Art Classes
    • Blog Info
    • Student Self-Eval
    • Photo Resource Info
    • Color Palette Generator
    • Power Music
    • Procreate Info and Tutorials
    • Mrs. Baack's Art
  • ELEMENTARY
    • Poster Design
    • Egyptian Cartouche