ILLUS-3760

THE COLLAGED IMAGE

Faculty: Polly Becker

Course Level: Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior, 5th Year, Graduate

3 CREDITS

This course will focus on the creation of expressive imagery through the combination of collage and mixed media. Students will work with a wide range of materials and collage elements, including their own drawings and paintings, photographic images and found objects. Techniques used for developing layers of both texture and meaning will be explored and later applied to specific illustration problems.

Students are also introduced to the concepts, histories, and techniques used in collage. Presentations, reference materials and museum visits will familiarize students with the work of many contemporary illustrators and fine artists who use collage as a medium, as well as those artists who are considered the pioneers of collage during the Dada and Surrealism art movements of the early 20th century. Through these activities students will form a frame of reference and develop their own individual approach to the medium.