Harlem Renaissanc

eCollage as an Art FormUsing Perspective to Create the

Illusion of Depth

Romare Bearden

A famous African-American collage artist from the Harlem Renaissance

Bopping at Birdland

Mother and Child

Conversations

Black Manhattan

Rockets

Cattle of the Sun God

Collage Technique

Remember Perspective Rules

SIZEPLACEMENTOVERLAPPING

CONVERGING

LINESCOLOR

DETAIL

To Create Collage:

Add layers starting from the back to the front.

Arrange cut images, shapes and textures before gluing down.

Don’t glue as you go in case you change your mind.

“The Sick Room” by Langston Hughes Ike Gladys

“The Sick Room” by Langston Hughes Ike Gladys

“Insomnia” Ismael Betancourt

“Insomnia” Ismael Betancourt

Cut CarefullyCut around the contours of the

object.You can also cut the shape out of a

solid color for a silhouette

“Why Did You Make Me Black?” Robyn Eddmonds

“Why Did You Make Me Black?” Robyn Eddmonds

Joana Valencia“Fantasy in Purple”

Textures

Visual Textures such as sky, water, ground, hair can be created by using the Mosaic Technique of cutting up the right color and texture into small pieces and

assembling into one larger area.

CrossMy old man’s a white old man

And my old mother’s black.

If ever I cursed my white old man

I take my curses back.

If ever I cursed my black mother

And wished she were in hell,

I’m sorry for that evil wish

And now I wish her well.

My old man died in a fine big house.

My ma died in a shack.

I wonder where I’m going to die

Being neither white nor black?

Langston HughesLa’Keysha Johnson

Jessica Cabildo

Luis Herrera“The Sick Room” by Langston Hughes

Vanessa Herrera“Sonnet 73” by William Shakespeare

Samantha Gonzalez

Creating Images

A whole image can be created from several parts….

Rockets

Another Collage Movement

The surrealists were some of the first artists to use collage as a medium.

They assembled all sorts of images to create strange dreamworlds.

These are the same people who invented the Exquisite Corpse game.

Ladislov Guderna

Gary Lee

Mina Loy