Opinion Page Use browser's BACK button to return to previous page. To return to Home Page , click here . Submit to Opinion Page. I n the 1960's campus life was filled with the excitement and energy of anti-war and social justice protest. Collage is an independent craft and art medium and, like painting, depends on no other for identity or validation.
P ainting typically begins with paint, canvas and stretchers.
This pre-defines the final surface and boundaries of the resultant image. For painting the final image is almost always a relatively flat surface confined to a tradition-determined symmetrical outline. The collagist combines and relates these irregularly shaped materials to form an internally harmonious image. There is neither canvas nor stretcher to pre-define or restrict the outline of the emerging image. Only the irregularity of an image consisting of its internally related visual and spatial elements.