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A Guide to Collage
January 17, 2022
(updated January 17, 2022)
Published by artistvenu
MAPA HOLOGRÁFICO DE ROTA DE FUGA by Gustavo Amaral
Who invented collage?
The term collage was coined around 1910 by the two pioneers of the Cubist movement, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. While exploring their new pictorial language, which sorts to fragment and distort their subject matters, Braque and Picasso began to experiment with assorted materials, such as printed oilcloth, newspaper cut-outs and patterned paper. By pasting these elements onto flat surfaces, they were able to evoke multiple dimensionality and further explore the fragmentation and destruction of objects.
One of the very first examples of collage is Picasso’s Still Life with Chair Caning (1912). In this collage, Picasso incorporated painted elements, oilcloth printed with a chair caning pattern, and a piece of rope as a frame. Using these everyday items in a work of art signaled a dramatic move away from the traditional confinements of fine art practice, towards the blurring of art and everyday culture.