The popularity of the collage technique it has fluctuated for the last 100 years from loved to hated. However today it is one of the biggest trends in graphic design and we cannot ignore it.
Over the past five years we have seen a exponential growth of these techniques, which is related to the improvement of image editing software. These new technological possibilities they have allowed artists to produce artistic pieces with greater freedom and flexibility. One of the business sectors that has taken the most advantage of this new creative capacity is the fashion industry.
The collage technique emerged after the First World War. The new artistic concept was made possible by improving the quality of the photographs and the creation of new cameras and diversification of analog materials such as tickets, newspapers, flyers, and magazines that were beginning to appear on city streets. In this way, new movements such as the surrealism and cubism; with artists like Man Ray, Georges Braque and Picasso they began to use these methods.
Although, it really started to take hold as graphic style just with the current of Dadaism thanks to artists like Duchamp, Jean Dubuffet and Kurt Schwitters. These creatives of the time were fascinated by photography and wanted to use this new artistic discovery to respond to the social events produced after the War. through experimentation.
It was also influenced by Cubomania; a surrealist method that proposed cutting images into squares and then rearranging the composition randomly. Later, new terms began to appear such as decoupage, collage painted on wood, photo collage until reaching the digital collage of today.
Here we leave you examples of contemporary digital collage artist works to inspire you.
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Ernesto Artillo
Meric canatan
Orbeh Studio
Kellem Monteiro
Iris VanGelder
