The art of collage consists in conglutinating various materials on a medium, or even joining objects together, for example: scraps of paper, pieces of wood, photos, newspaper pages or little trinkets. The artist can equally polish off his work by adding to it a drawing or painting. We consider this form of art as a specificity of the 20th [Read more]

If the oldest greeting card, such as we know it today, dates back more than 600 years, it was not, for all that, the most ancient transmission of greetings in writing. In point of fact, well before it the Chinese were already exchanging little notes of well wishes, while the Egyptians often sent messages on papyrus scrolls.

The oldest greeting card ever found dates back to the 1400's and was sent on St. Valentine's Day. However, despite its precocious beginnings, it was necessary to wait several centuries before the sending of greeting cards became a widely spread practice.

First sent by well-off people, greeting cards enjoyed great popularity following the [Read more]

Halfway between painting and sculpture, mosaics require the use of small pieces of stone, paste jewelry or ceramic called "tessera", bound together with cement. Once reunited, these pieces form a pictorial representation. Mosaics were frequently combined with frescoes, as they were often used to decorate the walls or vaults of [Read more]

If it greatly resembles collage, assemblage distinguishes itself from it by the creation of works in three dimensions. It consists in the combination of various objects or fragmented pieces to form a sometimes surprising whole. The art of assemblage has been experimented with by many famous artists, such Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Marcel [Read more]

In the 50s, Robert Rauschenberg came to fame thanks to the monochrome paintings that he covered with paper to create diverse textures. He next developed his own style, making canvases which he baptized "Combine Paintings", as they combined painting, collage and even assemblage. The integration of various objects in a work led him to [Read more]