Collage Works
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The importance of design is when looking at collage works like Eric Carle's for the first time, a viewer may find them to be haphazard or thrown together. This is not generally the case. Successful collagists employ the elements of design that are essential to their work: line, shape, color, value, texture, and space. Artists utilize and arrange these elements in many specific ways. But for their compositions to be effective, collagists observe certain principles of design in the same ways that painters, sculptors, graphic designers, print-makers, and craftspeople do.
An important part of the collagist's attitude toward the medium involves this working sense of design. Collage artists are superb designers of space, and working with easily adjustable materials on collage surfaces surely strengthens their compositional sensitivities. As you look at Eric Carle's website note how he works with various aspects of design and how he adapts those design principles to fit his personal style.
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