Once you start drawing and painting classes in Los Angeles, you may be tempted to venture into collage and assemblage. School children and famous artists know it’s fertile ground for playing around and for serious thinking.
Picasso is credited with the first fine arts collage of the twentieth century. In 1912 he affixed a real postage stamp to a picture of a letter. A few years later, he expanded into assemblage when he used cardboard to form a guitar. In case you’re wondering about the terminology, assemblage is usually more elaborate than collage. It’s also done in 3 dimensions rather than 2 which raises the age-old philosophical question that artists were exploring here. How do you reconcile art and life? How do you use a 2 dimensional object to depict a 3 dimensional reality?