Collage.

From various bits of collage I've done, I want to find ways that I can present the images together so that they flow and also have a running theme.

I guess that this is mostly down to visual language...

Ways I could do this are through adding text, or a narrative perhaps? Possibly through using the same colour throughout?

Ive looked at some books souly based on collage:

(Collage Techniques: A Guide for Artists and Illustrators)

This book seems to use colours as a running theme through out their images and as a way of creating narrative and a flow, but also a similar way of laying down and sticking paper.

I also came across this website...

http://www.collageart.org/links/

This is some information I gained through looking at the powerpoint Christian showed the first years in relation to collage...

Starting with some definitions:

Collage.

Art assembled from various materials

{ French; to glue }

Montage.

Composite picture made from various elements

{ French; putting together } Also Photo-montage

Assemblage.

Combining 3-D objects together into an art work

Juxtaposition.

To place (things) side by side

{ French; next to }

Denotation.

The primary, literal meaning

The intended meaning

Connotation.

The range of secondary meanings,

The reading of an image

Below are specific movements in collage over the years.

Illustionists

Avant-garde

Political Satire

Formalism

Pop-art

Counter culture

Contemporary collage

Ones that interested me the most were.....

Avant-garde.

Historical pioneers of the DADA, Futurist,

Constructionist and Bauhaus art movements

Artists such as:

Hannah Höch.

Rodchenko, Alexander (1891-1956)

Satire.

Use of ridicule, irony, sarcasm to expose and discourage

vice and folly. Political Satire.

Artists such as:

John Heartfield.

Martha Rosler.

Bringing the War Home.

Contemporary collage.

Artists such as:

James Dawe.

I came across this guy whilst researching. An amazing artist, who grew up and lives in London. His portfolio is well worth a look! His images are all so well executed. Collage, but all done with precision.