Sunday, March 28, 2010

Week: 5 cut and Paste: The collage the digital way

This week the focus was collage. I learnt that collage is an artistic compositions made of various materials. It is also a creative piece of work that resembles compositions in various materials. Artists such as Kaoul Hausman, John Heartfield, Kurt Schwitters, David Hockney, Peter Lewis were artists that were looked at. Looking at there artworks were really appealing and clever in the sense that the way they placed each thing within the artwork gave a meaning and made the artwork look artistically pleasing.

My main aim throughout this lesson was to learn some basic skills with creating a collage piece of work in photoshop. once i master learning how to use it and confident in the sense that i can place things where the image interwinds with various images i think i can create really satisfying pieces of artwork showing displacement and abstraction. I learnt with my own image i created that placing a bunch of random things together isn;t really the true understanding of collage. It was important to consider conventional design elements and principles such as composition, lines, shapes, colour, form and texture.

Throughout this lesson i like the whole idea of collage and what can be created. I found that my image was to cut and paste i need to work on trying to create the image so that it flows all together. Overall i liked collage.

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