Slow and meticulous methodological practices remain at the core of the collage technique, which gives rise to compositions of diverse figurative or abstract nature. Due to the constant exploration of new artistic territories (not only in terms of technique, but also in form and content), collage opens the door to imaginative worlds where anything is possible in a hybrid dimension. Furthermore, collage allows various expressive techniques to converge in a single artistic artifact, which, to collage artist Josep Renau, could also represent forms of cultural and political commitment. The present chapter explores what happens when art and collage enter the university classroom in a course for initial teacher training. In our case study, we found collage encouraged the student participants to imagine, observe, demonstrate, explore, and experiment—with every single piece of paper that intertwined with another to shape an encounter. In the process of producing their piece of artwork, the student needed to know how to craft their design, use the different tools and materials, and let themselves become fully engaged in their specific dialogue with the objects, while, at the same time, internally restructuring themselves. There was a constant tension between that which was already known and that which was not, and individual sensitivities were embodied in the form of intense images, capturing the movement, the vibration, that which is surreal or symbolic, and the very archetypes of life.

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Parallel Visions: The Creative Impulse of Collage for Initial Teacher Training

  • Donatella Donato,
  • Carlos Ramón-Olano

摘要

Slow and meticulous methodological practices remain at the core of the collage technique, which gives rise to compositions of diverse figurative or abstract nature. Due to the constant exploration of new artistic territories (not only in terms of technique, but also in form and content), collage opens the door to imaginative worlds where anything is possible in a hybrid dimension. Furthermore, collage allows various expressive techniques to converge in a single artistic artifact, which, to collage artist Josep Renau, could also represent forms of cultural and political commitment. The present chapter explores what happens when art and collage enter the university classroom in a course for initial teacher training. In our case study, we found collage encouraged the student participants to imagine, observe, demonstrate, explore, and experiment—with every single piece of paper that intertwined with another to shape an encounter. In the process of producing their piece of artwork, the student needed to know how to craft their design, use the different tools and materials, and let themselves become fully engaged in their specific dialogue with the objects, while, at the same time, internally restructuring themselves. There was a constant tension between that which was already known and that which was not, and individual sensitivities were embodied in the form of intense images, capturing the movement, the vibration, that which is surreal or symbolic, and the very archetypes of life.