VISUAL ANALOGY (between images)

Do you know what a visual analogy is?
It is a powerful tool to stimulate your creativity!

Guest facilitator Leticia Barreto will demonstrate the concept of visual analogy through collage techniques.
Seeing is not a simple optical phenomenon, but an act of choice.
According to the writer John Berger, in his famous work Ways of Seeing, the way we interpret the world around us is affected by what we know or believe. This way, our perception, and worldview will influence how we read images. The meaning we give to an image changes according to what is next to it or what comes immediately after it.
In this two parts workshop, we will explore the concept of visual analogy between images on the first one and between images and text on the second one. We will start with a brief historical contextualization, through examples of artists who use visual analogy as raw material for their creations. Through practical exercises, we will create awareness of this art of looking for similarities in differences, of connecting apparently different things.
This workshop is aimed at people who want to develop the more metaphorical aspect of collage.

Part 1 of a 2 part series. Workshops exist independently.

About Leticia Barreto:

(b. 1974 Sorocaba/SP – Brazil) is a multimedia artist and art educator. She studied fine arts at Istituto Lorenzo de Medici in Florence, with a Rotary Foundations scholarship. It was in 2000, in Italy, that she started exploring the language of collage. She holds a Master’s in Visual Arts and Intermedia from Évora University in Portugal. She works at Nextart in Lisbon, where she teaches watercolour and mixed media. She is a member of the Collage Working Club, where she has organised several collage workshops.
At the same time, she develops her regular artistic practice. She has been exhibiting internationally since 2000 in institutions, museums, cultural centres and art fairs. In her artistic work, the concept determines the language and technique to be used. She likes to play with paper fragments, creating visual and conceptual analogies until poetry emerges.
@leticiabarreto_art

Collage Working Club (CWC) is a weekly open workspace for artists working in the medium of paper. Organised in the format of alternate ‘drop in’ sessions and workshops masterclasses, it has both a regular facilitator, whilst also involving the artist community in the sharing of knowledge and skills. Providing materials, education and connections is the primary aim of CWC, and it will do this through the interdisciplinary art of collage as both an art form and a tool for personal growth.

O Collage Working Club (CWC) é um espaço de trabalho semanal aberto a artistas que trabalham com o suporte papel. Organizado no formato de sessões alternadas e masterclasses, tem um facilitador regular, ao mesmo tempo que envolve a comunidade de artistas na partilha de conhecimentos e competências.
Fornecer materiais, educação e ligações é o principal objetivo do CWC, e fá-lo-á através da interdisciplinaridade da colagem como uma forma de arte e uma ferramenta para o crescimento pessoal.

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