From time to time I have students research an artist prior to beginning a project and record their understanding of that artist and their work by making an Artist Page. They are encouraged to arrange all the relevant information in a manner that represents or connects back to the artist. This gives me the opportunity to see if they are ready to begin the project. This was their very first one on Rene Magritte/Surrealism before they did a surreal collage using Magrittes artistic devices - transformation, scale, levitation, juxtapostion, transparency and dislocation.

Painting or drawing onto a textured surface is as old as painting itself. Ancient people used the natural contours of cave walls to help them recreate the animals that were so vital to their survival. The decoration of tombs, temples and churches required artists to paint onto plaster and wood. Contemporary artists continue to use the texture of a surface to help them convey added depth to their work. Valery Koshlyakov Valery depicts grand formal architecture on a monumental scale. But his use of roughly torn cardboard boxes, dripping paint and fast vigorous mark making plants these structures firmly into the modern frenetic through-away world. Anselm Kiefer Born just after the Second World War, Anselm's work addresses the issues faced by the post-war generation of Germans . The highly textured mixed media surfaces of his paintings shows an emotional but uncompromising and brave response to a dark legacy. John Piper used found papers and prepared textured surfaces in his seascapes of the 1930's. Illustrators also use prepared surfaces and collage. Two notable examples are Mark Hearld and Eric Carle.

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