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Collage which is, in essence, the incorporation of any extraneous matter on to the picture surface, was introduced to the art world by Picasso as part of this new freedom.
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COLLAGE Before I began my research into COLLAGE I had very little knowledge of its beginnings, who came up with the idea, and what he might have been trying to say. All I knew was that the process involved different materials being arranged and glued to a backing, and that very often the materials had little or no apparent relationship with each other. I dipped into many the index of many art books to try and find a starting point for my research. The indexes took me into chapters dealing with DISTORTION, ABSTRACTION, and CUBISM, and that is where I started my research to try and understand what the artists in question were trying to say with their work. What I found out is that at the beginning of the twentieth century a number of artists claimed that traditional or representational art that portrays images as if frozen in time was...
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