Few weeks ago, I found this 和紙ちぎり絵(washichigire) a.k.a Japanese paper collage lesson from the newspaper for halfprice. The theme is 'Water Lily to cool your summer' The lesson is designated for beginners, which suits me perfectly. I told my friends about it and they commented,saying that such lessons are for elderly people. I told them that art has nothing to do with age and gender.
The reason I signed up for the lesson is because I wanted to try it.
I did and the photo above is my product. The teachers are of course experts and could just tear the paper according to the size of the photo within seconds compared to me. Nevertheless, I had fun. Of course, the teachers also took the opportunity to promote their lesson curriculum. TO be honest, I am interested. 4 lessons for 5250yen. I think I will sign up for the 4 lessons...
I didnt know much about collage until I took up this lesosn. Did some research and found lots of beautiful collage work displayed on the internet. Originating from the French word 'coller', meaning 'to glue'. A collage is work of art composed of materials like paper, newsprint, photographs, ribbons and other objects attached to a background support, usually a plain paper.
You can even do it digitally if you possess the technology skills. Lastly but not least, art work does not produces social reality but imagination and intensity of passion to explore everything around you through various materials, such as 和紙(washi).
2 comments:
That is so beautiful! At first glance I thought that it was a painting, when it's really pieces of colored paper. I will research a little myself as I am not sure I have ever done that in school (I had art in elementary school and one class in high school). Nice job!
It is Japanese collage. I am actually thinking of joining the 1month class to make 4 washi collages. They have classes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I think I should go for it!
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