960 - Wei Ye, Composition, abstraction with Chinese characters in olive, ochre and red tones, 1981

Wei Ye, Composition, abstraction with Chinese characters in olive, ochre and red tones, 1981 oil and collage on canvas, signed and dated lower right “WEI YE 1981”, abstract composition of oil painting and collage, colour fields in olive, ochre and red tones with collaged newspaper elements in Chinese script, upper centre a collaged illustration with two figures in a pavilion, upper right a large red downward-pointing form, lower left a black bar, condition commensurate with age, partially cracked with paint loss, image 60x73 cm (HxW), framed, narrow wooden moulding, frame width 1 cm Collage, from the French coller, to glue, combines painting with paper and other materials that are fixed to the support. Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso first incorporated newspaper and wallpaper into their Cubist pictures around 1910; these works were initially called papier collé. This established collage as an artistic technique in its own right. In Dada, Hannah Höch and Raoul Hausmann developed photomontage from it.