2015
Collage.
I find Collage art very interesting because of how realistic elements and fantasy elements can be combined into one frame. Those contrasting elements placed together to allow the audience to interpret the audience the artist’s intention
The Techniques of collage were used for the first time around 200 BC when China invented the paper. Until the 10th century, Japanese calligraphers began to apply glued paper by using texts on surfaces when they wrote poems. In medieval Europe during the 13th century, this technique appeared in the western world.
In the modernizing world of cubism, painters George Braque and Pablo Picasso first started to use the term “collage” around 1910 They borrowed the word from the French coller, which means ‘to glue’. Created from materials mostly made of paper or wood, cut and paste photographs, painted detail, or even 3D objects, many emerging artists started to explore this practice in the 20th century. Later on, collage developed to embrace the digital world and its new techniques allowing for an even wider variety of visuals and designs.
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The following are examples of some of my visual work connected to the piano music I worked on from the first semester.
These are collage ‘covers’ I made for Debussy’s ‘pagodes’ when I first heard this piece, I was thinking about dim lights that appear from the dark and vibrate like reflections on the water. I also use elements that symbolize the history behind the music :
The Eiffel tower was the place where Debussy encountered the Gamelan Music from an Indonesian village at the Universelle Exposition 1899. So I wanted to create the reflection of both the Eiffel and the pagoda by using the texture of the water.
Later on, I started to attempt to illustrate a bigger proportion for the piece, following the structural flow of the music itself.
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From left to the right :
The star is the beginning of the whole piece, representing the chords that slowly emerge out of the silence, creating a long blue line along with the mountains. I created a triangular design out of torn paper which I collaged to imitate the tiled texture of a pagoda. Below, there is a road that passes through a field and the full moon stands in the middle of the night to guide us home. Four kids with a retro-style telling us the story back then. The watery texture represents the coda of the repertoire which flows and fades away, building up a grand pagoda that reflects an Eiffel tower on the water.
Here are the individual elements that I used for this collage piece.
