Collage and assemblage

Collage names both a technique and the works made with it: bits of paper, photographs, cloth and other scraps are arranged and glued to a backing. The word comes from the French papiers collés, and began to be applied to artists' work in the early twentieth century. A collage may also include painting, drawing, or three-dimensional elements, and a photomontage is a collage built from photographs. Assemblage is art built from unrelated elements, often everyday objects the artist found or bought for the purpose. It goes back to the three-dimensional constructions Picasso began making in 1912; in 1918 the Dada artist Kurt Schwitters began making collages and assemblages from discarded scraps, and in the 1950s and 1960s the approach became widely used. Many artists today still gather found materials into large installations. At Piknic, the text for the Deborah Turbeville exhibition mentions her photo-collage work, and Pace Gallery's Pam Evelyn show includes works on paper made with collage among other media.

Look along the edges of the pieces: can you see where one piece ends and the next begins, and what each might have been before it was cut or found?

• Installation Art 설치 미술→Assemblage grows into installation when found materials fill a space.
• Collage 拼貼→Same topic in Taipei