Now and
Then Picture Collages — My Babies are Growing Up!
Not exact matches
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I should have made a post
then and now, with some nice photo
collages, but the styling in today's outfit is different so I thought it's a bit unfair towards the older post since I like these
pictures a lot more.
I have the
pictures arranged in a
collage over the back of shelving units and walls,
then the quotes hung in cloud shapes from above.
Have students cut out their silhouettes,
then fill them with a
collage of
pictures and words that express their identity.
Then, working in groups, students can make a
collage using words and
pictures to represent all the ways that people in the story are kind to each other.
Simply screenshot your
collage or tap and hold on the
picture to save it on your phone (it may require you to open the photo in new tab,
then save).
«Painterly Pasted
Pictures» an exhibition of 20th century painters of
collage curated by E. A. Carmean Jr. @ Freedman Art, New York, NY 2013 «Color & Edge» with Lauren Olitski Poster and Ann Walsh @ Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2012 «Extreme Possibilities: New Modernist Paradigms» The Painting Center, NYC, NY curated by Karen Wilkin 2009 «Direct Sculpture: A Dialogue in Polymers», Student Union Gallery, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 2006 «Greenberg in Syracuse;
Then and Now», Company Gallery, ThINC, Syracuse NY 2005 «Studies in Abstraction: Lauren Olitski, Susan Roth, and Ann Walsh», curated by Wendy S. Evans, Student Union Gallery, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2005 «Rural Artists / Urban Sensibilities», C. W. White Gallery, Portland ME 2003 «The Clement Greenberg Collection», Joe & Emily Lowe Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2003 «Clement Greenberg, A Critic's Collection», Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon 2001 «The Mirvish Teaching Collection», Agnes Ethrington Gallery, Queens University, Kingston, Ont.
Blowing up the transfer technique of that series (originally, soaking the magazine images in lighter fluid and rubbing them on paper with an empty ballpoint pen) to collect semi-transparent
pictures, he
then, with the bravura only he could muster (his friend and studio mate Jasper Johns was so much tighter) angled, swirled and layered them in symphonic pageants for which the term
collage seems wholly inadequate even if it is technically right.
Since
then, there have been many artists who've used photo
collage, like
Pictures Generation artists John Baldessari and Barbara Kruger, as a means for expressing the ubiquity of images and bold feminist statements, respectively.
Nicholas Middleton: When you are in the middle of the process it's hard to separate out those decisions that go into making a piece... when I started painting after I left college, I didn't... well, I suppose I fought against the idea of just making a painting from photographic sources which looked like a photograph, so I used lots of strategies to disguise it, or to confuse it in a sense, making paintings which were more like
collages, or reducing imagery to... well, I borrowed things from pop art to, I suppose, to complicate things, for a few years it felt like I was fighting against what I seem to be naturally quite good at, and
then it reached a point where I just felt I didn't want to tie myself in too many knots in terms of the thinking which was going on behind the
pictures and
then just let myself just paint fairly directly from photographic sources.
For instance, if you search for «Instagram» on the App Store, one of the first results is an app that is called «[app name] Photo
Collage,
Picture Editor, Pic Grid, F...» and
then it gets cut off.