Glenn Hirsch, Instructor www.glennhirsch.com

1. design
using collage
Mixed Media Painting Fall 2015
Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

2. the tradition
of surrealist collage-space

3. Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593)
analogy of shape

4. Man Ray
analogy of shape

5. Magritte
analogy of
shape

6. Raoul Hausmann
analogy of shape
and figurative swaps

7. Bruce Conner
analogy of shape
and figurative swaps

8. “paper dolls”
Hannah Hoch

9. Hannah Hoch
“paper dolls”

10. Kara Walker
“paper dolls”

11. Marty Skocilich

12. Marty Skocilich

13. Marty Skocilich

15. Marty Skocilich

16. Design Exercise

17. Collage can be real or abstract.
Make a background first, then select pieces for color as much
as for ‘idea.’
The collage must have:
1. A “light” source
2. Rhythm through repetition of:
• triangles, squares, circles
• parallel wavy lines
• zigzagging lines
• positive and negative shapes
• including at least one silhouette
3. One large shape created by overlapping smaller of shapes of
a similar color

18. the illusion of
“light”

28. Repetition of
geometric
shapes

30. Rhythm through repetition of:
• triangles, squares, circles
• parallel wavy lines
• zigzagging lines
• positive and negative shapes
• including at least one silhouette

36. Aishlin Harrison

38. positive/negative
shapes

47. silhouettes

50. Greg Sand

52. Scale:
overlapping
shapes of similar
color to
create
one large shape

57. Aishlin Harrison

63. Collage can be real or abstract.
Make a background first, then select pieces for color as much
as for ‘idea.’
The collage must have:
1. A “light” source
2. Rhythm through repetition of:
• triangles, squares, circles
• parallel wavy lines
• zigzagging lines
• positive and negative shapes
• including at least one silhouette
3. One large shape created by overlapping smaller of shapes of
a similar color