Deconstruct/Reconstruct

This week we received our first official brief, the theme is Deconstruct/Reconstruct. A lot of the base ideas our tutor Pam wanted us to research revolved around cubism, the artists involved in the historical movement and cubism's effect on art since and today. Our outcomes don't have to be directly linked to cubism, just the very wide subject of deconstructing and reconstructing something. There are many different paths to go down, possible subjects and themes to explore and a lot of research, historical and contemporary, to be done.
Before we received the brief, we had an art history lecture about cubism and the importance of the movement and were asked to produce collages with a 'cubist approach' out of photocopied images, magazine pages, old screen-print textures etc.

I made three collages with different themes (will upload photos once I have taken more). I was extremely happy with all three of them. It was exciting to see themes and ideas unfold from the placement of collage pieces and building on those themes. I do think I slightly swayed from the 'cubist approach' but my ideas and processes were definitely within the deconstruct/reconstruct theme.

I am a huge fan of collage and appropriating images and will definitely be using the techniques in this exciting new brief

EDIT:

The images of the other two collages I completed in class. I used similar images plus my own cut out pieces from the fashion magazine Peacocks and Pigeons

Nelle