Paper collé
Papier collé (French, “glued paper”, “adhesive picture”) is an early form of collage that was developed by the artists Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso around 1912 .
A first picture by Braque in 1911, Le Portugais , contained print in the form of block letters.
While initially decorative elements such as wood, paper, and wallpaper were imitated with painterly means in pictures of analytical cubism , they were later used in the picture themselves. Braque sought to emphasize the independence of the color, the geometry of the patterns and the grain of the materials in order to abstract them away from the object by gluing together different colored wallpaper pieces (e.g. fruit bowl and glass , 1912). Picasso emphasized the materiality of the objects by gluing wax prints of cane and newspaper into his pictures, thus integrating materials from the everyday world that were previously foreign to art into the creative process and confronting them with the usual painting material (e.g. still life with the cane chair , 1912) . In addition to materials such as sand, fabric and wood, everyday objects such as playing cards and printed packaging material were also used.
As a result, Juan Gris also made cubist collages.
The 3-D technique of the New York artist James Rizzi is technically based on paper collés, some of which were also three-dimensional.
Picasso later developed his ideas in the field of sculpture by processing everyday objects and non-art materials for his three-dimensional object art .
literature
- Frank Elgar: Le papier collé du cubisme à nos jours . Hazan, Paris 1956