What is decolage?

In its strictest sensory décoller, a word derived from French, which traditionally has an accent compared to the first "E", it concerns the form of art made of torn public posters without further intervention by the artist. Some artists left their drawings out on the wall and others torn the layers of posters completely out of the walls and introduced them in a different context as art. Mimmo Rotello was the main character in this artistic form, although many of his works of art were a collage. Decolage was one of the first art methods to use mass culture and can therefore be considered a form of pop art.

The French meaning for decolage is to "take off" or "unglue". At the end of the forties and early 1950s, artists in Italy and France began to look for ways to use the mass market in their work, and these artists began to peel the street from public walls to make other posters visible. Curved posters, sometimes referred to as jerky posters, were considered art and partieso they remained anonymously. Some artists would also peel the layers of posters from the wall and display the decolars elsewhere without further manipulation. In these works of art were film stars and bulk goods.

Italian artist Mimmo Rotella, one of the inventors of Decolage, eventually began to tear posters from public walls and stick them to the canvas. Although Rotella referred to these works as decolage, it was really a collage. Decolage is a process of making art processing in which the paper is removed to reveal the image under it without further penetration. The collage, on the other hand, can be considered a process of additive artistic creation. The artist sticks newspapers, magazines clippings, colored paper, photographs and any other material that wants to create a collage.

Decollage has evolved when artists began to look for inventive ways to assimilate images of mass culture into their works of art and also comment on the nature of tthese pictures. Although Mimmo Rotella is sometimes attributed to the attitude of artistic form, artists in France also used it. Rotella was eventually invited to join a group of French artists entitled New Realism, which used massmé media materials in its art. A new group of realism created the foundation for French pop art. One of the most famous characters in pop art was Andy Warhol, an American artist whose paintings of cans and Marilyn Monroe soup have become famous all over the world during the 1960s.