COLLAGE & STYLE

1. What is collage, what art movement is it a part of? Who were the notable artists who made this genre of artwork?
2. What makes a collage?
3. Who is Ruben Ubiera, and what type of artwork does he create?
4. How can you create your own collaborative collage?

Students will be able to… visualize images created by this artist in their own city. Learn about pop art, specifically collage. Learn about the most notable artists in the field or collage, and technical skills to create one’s own collage either individually or collaboratively.

Create, Present, Respond, Connect

• Create a self-guided choice-based activity that each student uses to identify an image they would like to contribute to a group collage.
• Present: each student works collaboratively with at least 2-3 other students to share why they chose the image or selection that they did for a collaborative collage.
• Respond to their classmates’ images by trying to develop groupings or themes that have arisen from the images that were chosen.
• Connect: students who have similar themed images or some commonality will work with their peers to develop a collaborative collage using a portion of each peer.
• Judge: do you like the work, why or why not? If this was your work, would you have chosen another color palette – explain?

• Pop art
• Collage
• Content vocabulary: Balance, Space, Color, Composition, Form.

Students will learn about post-graffitism and explore Ruben’s website as well as his work at Bentwater.

• Discuss collage and provide some more visual examples of collage (references) Learn about some artists who have developed a name for themselves by way of collage: Sen2Figueroa; Pablo Picasso; Georges Braque; Romare Bearden; Barbara Kruger; Wangechi Mutu
• Spend the remainder of class creating circles all over your page for 3 pages, do the same for a triangle, do the same for a square.
• Have a Brief video chat with Ruben so he can identify the use of parts of images to make something more unique.
• Discuss use of color, tones, placement of the figure and details, use of natural/artificial light.
• Each group member will choose an image to contribute to a group collaboration. How much of each individual image should be included for a viewer to understand what it is.
• How should images be arranged for most impact by the viewer?
• What is being communicated/emphasized in the collaboration?
• If you were to give each part of the image a voice, what would each piece say to the other? How do these different parts support the others or contradict the others?
• Share as a class and invite the artist to take part in this process
• Create your own or a group collage inspired mini mural using a material of your choice or mixed media.

• • What colors would you use and why
  • How could you make your image pop by the color combinations that you choose both in the foreground and background, as well as the colors that appear next to each other in a piece of art.

• Share the works with the artist via slideshow or presentation.

Provide opportunity to use online learning tools such as a website that allows for collage, or collage images if students do not have access to technology (or if technology access is too stimulating for students and class size).

Teacher may also provide several images at each table or group to limit time wasted searching for images, and begin the creative brainstorming process; once familiar with the steps necessary, teacher provides more opportunities for deeper learning, ie:

1. After creating the first collage as a group, students then work to search for images for their own personal collage.
2. Students have by the end of the 2nd class to find and prepare at least 5 images that will be used to create a collaborative piece of artwork. Choose and cut out each of the 5 images and begin thinking about colors/ways to build these collage pieces into your backgrounds.

Group work/individual work as needed depending on the class population, time allotted to the project, and resources/supports that the teacher has available to them.

1. Magazines
2. Scissors / X-acto knives
3. Sharpies
4. Glue
5. Colored pencils
6. Spray paint
7. Rulers
8. Pencils
9. Surface for adhering design Paint Markers (Cardstock/canvas/mixed media paper)

• Juxtaposition
• Balance
• Contrast
• Use of space
• Positive/negative shapes
• Composition
• Use of natural/artificial light

• https://www.urbanpopsoul.com/ Ruben’s website with links to his work for reference and exploration
• In Our Element Ruben’s mural 2015
• https://www.freemix.com/newdoc/
• website for creating collage online although some images may not be sensitive to younger audiences