Collage

What is collage?

• the art of making two- or three-dimensional representative or abstract forms, especially by carving stone or wood or by casting metal or plaster.

• the action or skill of using paint, either in a picture or as decoration.

• a type of fine-grained natural soil material that contains hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates that develops plasticity when wet.

• the technique in which pieces of paper, photographs, fabric and other materials are arranged and stuck down onto another surface

Which two artists are said to have been the pioneers of collage in the early twentieth century?

• Max Ernst and Hannah Hoch

• Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol

• Pablo Picasso and George Braque

• George Braque and Andre Breton

• Eduardo Paolozzi and Hannah Hoch

What does the french verb for collage, 'coller' mean?

• to stick

• to assemble

• to move around

• to think

Which of these is NOT a collage?

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What does composition mean?

• a rigid structure that surrounds something such as a picture

• the arrangement of elements within a work of art.

• a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying, especially one for calcining lime or firing pottery.

• able to stick fast to a surface or object; sticky.

It is said Picasso first experimented using collage by by adding a piece of oilcloth to his painting, but what is this work called?

• Still-Life with Oil Cloth

• Collage Discovery

• Still-Life with Chair Caning

• Three Dancers

When do we believe collage first began?

• 20th century by Picasso

• End of WW1 1918

• When paper was first invented around 105AD

• 1654

What does mixed-media mean?

• a term used to describe artworks composed from a combination of different media or materials

• one type of watermedia, paint consisting of natural pigment, water, a binding agent, and sometimes additional inert materia

• a word used to describe a collage made from the same photograph, repeated

• a term used to capture the personality of a person or group of people by using effective lighting, backdrops, and poses.

Which of these is NOT collage?

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What are the key things to remember when creating a collage?

• Composition

• Layers

• Variety of shapes

• Neat edges