The collage is a technique that consists in the assembling different types of materials, usually paper or other two.dimensional elements, on a selected surface to create a piece of art. This process may include to use newspaper cuts, photos, piece of fabric or similar materials, mostly combined also with painting techniques.
In the contemporary art scenario, the collage is highly used to explore the combination of contrasting elements and the images, texture and concepts juxtaposition. <\/p>\n\n
The collage places its roots in the cubist movement, with artists like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque who, at the beginning of the 20th century, experimented with the inclusion of non-traditional materials in their paintings. Since then, it has become a versatile tool in contemporary art, capable of evoking new visual narratives and manipulating meanings through the assembly of existing images. <\/p>\n\n