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News & Views
1:56 pm
Fri June 22, 2012
Celebrating 100 Years of Collage as Fine Art
By Susan Lewis
Henri Matisse's BLUE NUDE II, 1952, is an example of decoupage, which is a type of collage.
The use of collage as a form of fine art is traced to 1912, when early 20th-century artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque began gluing objects onto their paintings. WRTI's Susan Lewis considers the evolution of collage as fine art and as a socially relevant form of personal and political expression.
