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Still Life With Chair Caning
Still life with Chair Caning is an ovular 1912 mixed-media collage work by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) which is considered to be the first cubist collage as well as by some the first Assemblage (art), assemblage. The work consists of oil and printed oilcloth (a waterproof fabric used for tablecloths - here imitating the chair caning material i.e. rattan) on canvas edged with rope. It is said that by introducing the facsimile of a newspaper into the work that he was "inserting a fragment of reality into the fictive realm of painting". In this piece still life and in turn the elements which go into a restaurant or cafe dining experience are the crux of the literal pictorial ingredients. It is one of the initial Crystal Cubism#Pre-war: analysis and synthesis, Synthetic Cubist collage works. ..."In these works, still-life objects overlap and intermingle, barely maintaining identifiable two-dimensional forms, losing individual surface texture, and merging into the background—achieving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mixed-media
In visual art, mixed media describes artwork in which more than one medium or material has been employed. Assemblages, collages, and sculpture are three common examples of art using different media. Materials used to create mixed media art include, but are not limited to, paint, cloth, paper, wood and found objects. Mixed media art is distinguished from multimedia art which combines visual art with non-visual elements, such as recorded sound, literature, drama, dance, motion graphics, music, or interactivity. History of mixed media The first modern artwork to be considered mixed media is Pablo Picasso's 1912 collage '' Still Life with Chair Caning'', which used paper, cloth, paint and rope to create a pseudo-3D effect. The influence of movements like Cubism and Dada contributed to the mixed media's growth in popularity throughout the 20th century with artists like Henri Matisse, Joseph Cornell, Jean Dubuffet, and Ellsworth Kelly adopting it. This led to further innovat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |