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Paper Collage: Chinese Style
This beautifully illustrated guide to Chinese paper collage art demonstrates the techniques and philosophy behind this creative and fun art form.
Paper collage art has a special charm. It can be as exquisite as oil painting or as freehand (xieyi) as ink wash painting. A paper collage art is a perfect mean to express humors and romances, demonstrate subjective perspectives and emotions, record special moments, and depict favorite scenes.
Collage Art teaches you how to pick up some magazines, newspaper, and color paper around you that are no longer needed and put your ideas onto a piece of paper.
You can create some decorations for your desk, bedroom, office, as well as some collage crafts for your friends on festivals and weddings. These collages not only present your unique style but also will also get lots of compliments!
Paper collage art has a special charm. It can be as exquisite as oil painting or as freehand (xieyi) as ink wash painting. A paper collage art is a perfect mean to express humors and romances, demonstrate subjective perspectives and emotions, record special moments, and depict favorite scenes.
Collage Art teaches you how to pick up some magazines, newspaper, and color paper around you that are no longer needed and put your ideas onto a piece of paper.
You can create some decorations for your desk, bedroom, office, as well as some collage crafts for your friends on festivals and weddings. These collages not only present your unique style but also will also get lots of compliments!
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164 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 2016
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September 17, 2020
So far I've read only the intro and took a look at all the pictures, but this is what I was looking for. I was aiming at this years ago before stopping doing paper collage. Time to get my hands dirty again.
April 28, 2024
If you're looking for some basic techniques of how to create, beginning collages from paper only, this book may serve you well. However, that is not what I was looking for.
This book is irksome to read. Apparently, English is not the author's first language. While I find it impressive that he knows more than one language, he might've been better served by having a translator finish the book. The grammar is all over the place. The word choice is flawed. The resulting text requires the reader to read a passage and stop and translate it into what the author meant. I found that I wasn't always certain I could tell what the author meant.
The illustrations in the book were created, according to the author, by people who did not previously know how to do this. The result is a collection of artwork that is good, but not great.
A pet peeve I have in the beginning of the book is that the author describes collage with paper as a new type of art. That's ridiculous of course. People have been making collage out of paper for thousands of years. Perhaps this is another point that was lost in translation.
However, he does have projects in the book with good instructions. So if you're wanting a beginner selection of exercises, creating collage with only paper, take a look at this book.
This book is irksome to read. Apparently, English is not the author's first language. While I find it impressive that he knows more than one language, he might've been better served by having a translator finish the book. The grammar is all over the place. The word choice is flawed. The resulting text requires the reader to read a passage and stop and translate it into what the author meant. I found that I wasn't always certain I could tell what the author meant.
The illustrations in the book were created, according to the author, by people who did not previously know how to do this. The result is a collection of artwork that is good, but not great.
A pet peeve I have in the beginning of the book is that the author describes collage with paper as a new type of art. That's ridiculous of course. People have been making collage out of paper for thousands of years. Perhaps this is another point that was lost in translation.
However, he does have projects in the book with good instructions. So if you're wanting a beginner selection of exercises, creating collage with only paper, take a look at this book.
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