Last week we discussed and practiced a great abstract
collage project that highlights all of the elements and principles of
design. The project was based upon a
list of basic compositional arrangements, analogous colors, handmade and
textured papers, and kamikaze colors (complimentary colors assigned by the
teacher). Below are a few photographs of
my own work and the work of my classmates:
If I were going to teach a collage lesson I would either
approach it in a nonobjective way similar to the project we explored in class,
or I would use Romare Bearden as a reference and have students create composite
landscapes, scenes, or portraits. His
collage work The Block is an amazing
example of a combination of colored papers, textured papers, and found images
from newspapers and magazines. In order
to make the lesson relevant, I would prompt students to create scenes of their
communities. They could choose to focus
on their neighborhoods, their school, their church, the local downtown area, or
any location of personal importance.
This is Romare Bearden’s collage The Block:
This is his work The Block II (it features the use of various foils, papers, paint, ink, and graphite):
Here are some detail shots from the original piece:
Examples of similar student projects from around the
internet:
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