Artistic Techniques: Symmetry & Collage
Artistic Techniques: Symmetry & Collage
Observe the following drawings, replicate them in your notebook or print them out and stick them, then
decorate to your liking with some type of material. Notice in each drawing there is a line
imaginary that divides them in half, write down the differences you see in the images and
write them down in your notebook.
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SYMMETRY:
A figure is symmetrical when divided vertically into two halves, both are.
perfectly alike, as if we were looking at them in a mirror.
Symmetrical balance occurs when a composition is divided into two parts.
they remain the same.
COLLAGE
Regarding its etymology, the origin of the word 'collage' is found in the
verb of the French language, which translates as«stick«This explains that
a collage can be created entirely with photographs, everyday objects and
pieces of paper of different shapes, fonts, and materials glued onto a
same base.
The main characteristics of collage are:
Photographs, paintings, images, textures, and others can be integrated.
The role of collage is diverse, sheets of white paper, colored sheets can be combined.
newspapers, magazines, textured paper, photographs, and others.
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TAKEOFF:
Decollage refers to the artistic technique opposite to collage; instead of building an image with
the sum of other images, like in the collage, consists of constructing a new work
tearing or ripping parts of the original, revealing part of the image behind it.
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Page 50. Choose two asymmetric drawings from the guide, then draw and color them or you can
choose the guide drawings from the book.
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COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING SYMMETRICAL FIGURES AND APPLY COLOR, you can print
or draw in the notebook or on sheets of paper.
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Page 51: CREATE A COLLAGE: Draw a heart silhouette on the entire sheet and make
a collage, fills the heart with many little hearts of all colors and sizes, the
you can make them on colored paper and you can decorate some with different hearts
lines or points.
Page 52. ORGANIZE A DECOLLAGE: Carry out a decomposition of any figure,
recorta de una revista cualquier imagen y puedes colocar cuerpo de mujer, colocarle cara
of man, child legs, wallet and in the background a landscape, a sun. Etc.
SELF-EVALUATE:
Use the corresponding color for each box, taking into account your performance in the preparation.
from the guide
EVALUATE YOUR LEARNING PROCESS