Print Techniques - What is Collage?
About collage
The word, collage is from the French verb coller, meaning 'to glue’, and is the artistic process of gluing and assembling various materials to a flat surface.
Monoprint provides the starting point for my work and I use the addition of collage in the final stages of the prints to add a different dimension and surface quality to the work.
The process of affixing objects to a surface is probably as old as paper itself, but it didn't become popular in the art world until about the 1920’s when artists such as Pablo Picasso and George Braque implemented this method in their work. They began using collage as a more modern approach to making art. By cutting and pasting, they were able to deconstruct the subject they were depicting. They could then reassemble and glue it back together again in an entirely new way
