On 16 May at 18:00, the Museum of Florentine Mosaic will host a workshop led by artist Natalia Novikova
. Participants will learn the basics of composition and create botanical and animal images using collage techniques. Our collages will be built on vintage postcards, newspapers, and magazines. In addition, visitors will be able to explore the museum galleries and enjoy coffee surrounded by mosaic artworks.
What is collage?
Collage (from the French collage — “pasting, gluing”) is a method of creating compositions by combining materials of different textures (newspaper clippings, pieces of fabric, photographs). Elements are layered and fixed onto a single base. In terms of assembling parts into a whole, the principle has existed “always”: it underlies painting (paint–canvas), sculpture (metal–stone), and architecture (sandstone, gold, plaster). As an independent art form, collage was recognized only in the twentieth century, when Futurist artists began using fragments of newspapers, photographs, and textiles, pasting them onto canvas. The technique is often dated to 1912, when Georges Braque incorporated newspaper clippings into a painting.
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