Project 3- Assembling Meaning- Collage (Part 1)

This project explores collage in contemporary image making as a way to construct an image from multiple sources. Select two or three of the listed words or a pair of binary words.

Binary Oppositions
beautiful / grotesque
here / there
now / then

open / closed

mind / body
rational / emotional
feminine / masculine

Create your own pairing from these words
gender
, humor
, stupid, distorted, expansive, anxious, 
absurd, 
intense, 
ordinary, 
superficial, obscure, 
outcast, 
popular, serious, 
history, 
political, 
heritage, 
horrific

Think about the relationship between these words and how you can convey your idea visually. It can realistic, surreal, abstract- however you'd like to get your idea across.
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Collect collage materials: magazines, newspapers, images from the internet, photocopies, etc.. Then create a collage on an 18 x 24" sheet based on the text using collected imagery.

Look up this list of collage artists:
Richard Hamilton, Christian Holstad, Robert Rauschenberg , Marcel Duchamp, Judy Pfaff, Paula Wilson, Mickalene Thomas

and below are some images of a few for inspiration:

Wangechi Mutu


Hannah Hoch




John Stezaker

Max Ernst




Scott Treleaven