Décollage

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Décollage, in art, is the opposite of collage; instead of an image being built up of all or parts of existing images, it is created by ripping and tearing away or otherwise removing, pieces of an original image.[1] The French word "décollage" translates into English literally as "take-off" or "to become unglued" or "to become unstuck". Examples of décollage include etrécissements and cut-up technique. A similar technique is the lacerated poster, a poster in which one has been placed over another or others, and the top poster or posters have been ripped, revealing to a greater or lesser degree the poster or posters underneath.

Practitioners of décollage

An important practitioner of décollage was Wolf Vostell. Wolf Vostell noticed the word "décollage" in Le Figaro on 6 September 1954, where it was used to describe the simultaneous take-off and crash of an aeroplane. He appropriated the term to signify an aesthetic philosophy, applied also to the creation of live performances, Vostell's working concept of décollage, was the Dé-coll/age and begun in 1954, is as a visual force that breaks down outworn values and replaces them with thinking as a function distanced from media. He also called his Happenings Dé-coll/age-Happening.[2][3][4]

The most celebrated artists of the décollage technique in France, especially of the lacerated poster, are

Burhan Dogancay and was created with the help of critic Pierre Restany
), although Rotella was Italian and moved back to Italy shortly after the group was formed. Some early practitioners sought to extract the defaced poster from its original context and to take it into areas of poetry, photography, or painting.

Lacerated posters are also closely related to

Paper Mulberry
, torn and rolled back to reveal other layers generating the three-dimensional image.

A cinematic example of décollage are the works of Spanish experimental filmmaker Antoni Pinent, each involving celluloid film strips.[6][7][8][9]

Déchirage

Déchirage (from the French, déchirer: 'to tear') is an artistic style that distresses paper to create a three-dimensional patchwork. It is a form of décollage, taking the original image apart physically through incision, parting and peeling away.

African American collage artist used déchirage as an important element of his abstract expressionist paintings.[10] The first public display of "Photographic" Déchirage (the tearing of layers of digital photographs to create a distinctive three-dimensional image) was at the Art of Givingexhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in 2010.[11]

Literature

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ See D-De Archived 2005-04-24 at the Wayback Machine, ArtLex Art Dictionary. Retrieved 2007-10-17.
  2. ^ "Wolf Vostell, Dé-coll/age-Happening". Archived from the original on 2014-08-12. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
  3. ISBN 978-3-7757-3864-4
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  4. ^ Beuys Brock Vostell
  5. Saint-Etienne Métropole: Musée d'Art Moderne
    , 2004), 78–80.
  6. ^ Light Cone - G/R/E/A/S/E
  7. ^ Antoni Pinent: Celluloid Strips|Experimental Cinema
  8. ^ G/R/E/A/S/E|Viennale
  9. ^ Curtain Raiser Xcèntric's 13th Season - Antoni Pinent / EXPERIMENTAL SKETCHES|Activities|CCCB
  10. ^ 'Bearden as Abstract Expressionist' Maalek Marshall, Virginia Commonwealth University webpages
  11. ^ Sea-cloth Archived 2014-02-20 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ TPL, 1961

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