REVIEW Collage & Elements

What is collage?

• the art of making two- or three-dimensional representative or abstract forms, especially by carving stone or wood or by casting metal or plaster.

• the action or skill of using paint, either in a picture or as decoration.

• a type of fine-grained natural soil material that contains hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates that develops plasticity when wet.

• the technique in which pieces of paper, photographs, fabric and other materials are arranged and stuck down onto another surface

What is collage?

• the art of making two- or three-dimensional representative or abstract forms, especially by carving stone or wood or by casting metal or plaster.

• the action or skill of using paint, either in a picture or as decoration.

• a type of fine-grained natural soil material that contains hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates that develops plasticity when wet.

• the technique in which pieces of paper, photographs, fabric and other materials are arranged and stuck down onto another surface

Which of these is NOT a collage?

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What does composition mean?

• a rigid structure that surrounds something such as a picture

• the arrangement of elements within a work of art.

• a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying, especially one for calcining lime or firing pottery.

• able to stick fast to a surface or object; sticky.

Which of these is NOT collage?

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What are the key things to remember when creating a collage?

• Composition

• Layers

• Variety of shapes

• Neat edges

Collage

• a picture made by gluing different materials - like paper and fabric shapes - onto a flat background.

• where you go to school after high school.

• a picture made by drawing with a pencil.

Mixed media

• a technique of using a tool to scratch into paper coated with black ink.

• a technique of painting with thick paint.

• a technique that uses two or more art materials in a single composition.

Variety

• to do everything the same way.

• when parts of an artwork are different to make the artwork more visually interesting.

• to create a crisp, clean edge on an art material with scissors, knife, or a saw.

Arrangement

• what something is made of

• gives a softer, less-defined edge to an art material and is made by ripping the material with one’s hands.

• an artwork made by placing parts together