Creating collages is not uncommon in any elementary school or house with children residing in it.
In fact, having children and collages sort of come hand in hand.
It is a tactile way of learning and creating something that isnt just done with a pen or pencil.
An illusion that may see you gazing out of a window into a landscape or still life.
To do this they broke their compositions down into fragments, like a broken mirror.
Their subject matter was flattened and drawn from all angles, presenting a 360 degree picture.
A more accurate and honest depiction, in their opinion.
And so, Cubism was born!
So who were the Cubists?
It was like being roped together on a mountain.
Oh to have been a fly on the wall, we wonder what we would have heard?!
Soon other artists joined their movement.
These artists paved the way for artists in other art movements that were rising around them.
The Futurists and Dadaists both used collage and continued to push the boundaries of what art was.
Cubism is split into two stages.
The first stage is called by art historiansAnalytical Cubism.
These paintings become more and more abstract, the planes of the painting shattering more and more.
Colours become very muted with browns, beiges, blacks and blues.
Picasso and Braque began to start experimenting with creating works with pasted paper.
Whereas Picassos collages had three-dimensional elements, Braques remained paper based and mostly two-dimensional.
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