The Twentieth Century: Modern Art

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The first modern collage was considered Picasso's Still Life with Chair Caining, May 1912. It is actually an assemblage of oil paint, oil cloth, pasted paper, and rope, making it a low-relief, three-dimensional construction. Picasso's Glass and Bottle of Suze, completed in November 1912 and one of the earliest paper collages, combines cut and pasted fragment of newspaper, wall-paper, and other papers to create abstract still life forms. The practice of collage as a fine art form was well on its way. Picasso was promptly joined by Spanish artist Juan Gris in making extensive use of collage techniques as they worked their respective ways through the cubist epoch.

When exploring this website on Pablo Picasso you can explore his cubist artwork of broken up space and shapes and often using torn, cut, and pasted papers as intergral components of his designs. Newspaper headlines and typography were used for his graphic impact and textures, and were not intended to be read. The art of pasting papers to a support was called papier colle, the French term for pasted paper.