Post Pop Art Collage Artist
How has consumerism and adverting effected our recognition of simple fonts or images?
Do you know what these are from?...
Why do you know that so well?
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle by creating art from old trash.
"You are what you Create!"
If this is true...
Michael Albert is Creative, Fun, Inventive, Resourceful, Economical, Thoughtful, Thrifty, and Frugal.
He began as an artist drawing on ANYTHING! (including sickness bags on airplanes).
One time, he did not want to throw away his Frosted Flakes box, so he made a cereal collage out of it, using the cardboard backing of a notebook as his gluing surface.
Let's Find out more...
Vocabulary-
Collage- an art form that involves arranging and gluing various materials onto a surface to create a new image. The word "collage" comes from the French word coller, which means "to glue".
One of the first collages in history done by
Pablo Picasso in 1912
Mosaic-a type of art that involves creating a picture or design by arranging small pieces of material, called tesserae, on a surface. The pieces are usually made of stone, glass, tile, or shell, and are often set in place with mortar or plaster.
2000-3000 BC from Mesopotamia
Fonts- In text, a font is a specific style and size of text characters that can be printed or displayed. Fonts can be used in both digital and print text.
Consumer- A person that buys and consumes products from places that sell them.
CRITERIA-
-Using Pop Culture advertisements, (recognized by CONSUMERs)
or packaging products, reuse FONTS and images to create a COLLAGE.
-Fill up space of 8 by 12 page.
-Leave small gaps in between like a MOSAIC.
-Use at least 10 letters.
*collect your pieces and keep up with them in your portfolio.
"No gluing until you know what you are doing." Michael Albert
