Eduardo Paolozzi, Experience, 1964
Eduardo Paolozzi, Head, 1946
From the National Galleries of Scotland:
This is one of a group of drawings Paolozzi made with a reed pen while he was at the Slade School of Art in 1946-7. The drawings relate to Picasso’s drawings of the late 1930s, which could, among other places, be seen in the collection of Roland Penrose. A friend of Picasso and his future biographer, Penrose met Paolozzi around the time these drawings were made. This particular drawing is related to the sculpture ‘Horse’s Head’, which is also in the Modern One’s collection. The parallel lines in pen and ink, which feature so dominantly in this collage can also be found on the surface of the sculpture, indicating the close relation of the two types of media for Paolozzi.
Eduardo Paolozzi, Collage, 1953
From the National Galleries of Scotland:
Collage was of crucial importance throughout Paolozzi’s work - many of his sculptures and prints were made in a collage fashion, built up from different imprints or layers of objects and images. This collage is composed of fragments of screenprints, as well as tickets and scraps of magazines and drawings. Collage is a supremely twentieth-century medium, mirroring the way we flick through articles and advertisements in magazines, or the way we switch between television channels. The art-historic pedigree of collages composed from everyday materials goes back to the German Dada artist Kurt Schwitters who made a similar use of collage from the late 1910s on.
