Rough V
by AnnaJo Vahle
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Title
Rough V
Artist
AnnaJo Vahle
Medium
Mixed Media - Paper Collage
Description
This is an abstract artwork made of torn paper. It is a collage. One of my initials is a “V.” I hoped to do this letter symbol in a different way.
When the famous artist Matisse was older, he was diagnosed with cancer and confined to a wheelchair. Anxious from the thought of not being able to sculpt or paint, he turned to collage to express his artistic voice. Matisse called it “painting with scissors.” I love this approach to making a collage, and these paper collage techniques are the perfect way to put it into practice on your next paper crafts projects.
Some two thousand years after paper was invented in China,collage artists and the art of collage found their true form in the early stages of modernism – through Pablo Picasso, it is widely believed, and his 1912Still Life with Chair Caning – a canvas onto which there was a patch of oilcloth attached. Coming from the French verb “coller”, meaning “to clue”, the term was coined by the Spanish artist together with Georges Braque, describing a technique which arose as a response to the First World War and a powerful tool in the making of even more powerful statements. Little less three-dimensional than assemblage, Collage art allowed artists to engage with existing materials, to which they could assign new contexts in order to create a brand new artwork. Ranging from newspapers and magazines to maps, tickets, propaganda, photographs, ribbons, postage stamps, paint, text and found objects, the elements of Collage participate in a handy creative process of putting artworks together and even breaking them apart, in an artistic explorations unto the unknown.
As such, Collage was popular among artists belonging to movements like Surrealism Dada and Nouveau Réalisme – in fact, legends like Jean Dubuffet, Kurt Schwitters and Man Rayare among those who had helped form the very definition of the medium with their influential artworks – and let us also not forget the contributions of one Henri Matisse, whose collages are still very popular on the market. The wide use of Collage also inspired the birth of Cubomania, a Surrealist method whereby an image is cut into squares, which are then reassembled automatically or at random. Aside from Cubomania, the technique evolved into other categories as well, including decoupage, involving decorative paper cut-outs, collage in painting and on wood, photo collage and, most recently, digital collage.
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Comments (11)
Melinda Dare Benfield
The subtleness of this is awesome. Saw it in the Of a Certain Age and voted. Good luck.
Laurel Adams
AnnaJo...WONDERful backstory and torn Art collage!...thank you for sharing that history and perspective. I will keep this in mind for the future should I no longer be able to paint with pencils either..:-) I find it helpful to my soul to ALWAYS have a PLAN!..:-)
AnnaJo Vahle replied:
Thank you, Laurel. I understand what you mean about keeping it in mind for your future, however, I hope that you only try it out for no other reason other than you enjoy it. f/l
VIVA Anderson
This sings to me, AnnaJo......so imaginative, inspiring, minimal, strong !!......Kudos, fav, VIVA
Rainbow Artist Orlando L
This collage work is striking and eye-catching AnnaJo!! i fully enjoy the contrast, the drama and the unique patterns and rough edges of the torn paper. i can understand why V is your fav initials. and you certainly did justice and wonder to this artistic V!! L/F