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Newman feels free to draw inspiration from the pop artists - Warhol, Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and others, but he has also grown to love the work of a wide variety of other artists. Soon he began incorporating other collage elements, including found objects that he and Donna would discover as they collected antiques and “other weird stuff.” Soon, Newman's unique style emerged, a blend of painting and collage. These pictures still are very vivid in my memory and have shaped my vision.”Īt first Newman created work on the side while continuing to work in the silk screening business, but as demand started to fall, the budding artist found himself devoting more and more time to his art, while Donna started a costume jewelry business.Īt first Newman experimented by printing silk screens on wood and canvas.
The car and motorcycle culture added to the exciting imagery that was everywhere. “Growing up in Southern California in that time, I was bombarded with art and graphics in all the signage with the bright flashy neon, the strawberry fields and orange groves that surrounded our neighborhood. “I feel the subject matter picked me,” says the artist.
Though he didn’t have any formal art training, Newman took what he had learned from working on cars and from his silk screen business and began creating dimensional, multi-media collage work. I saw an exhibition in LA of Frank Stella's giant wall sculptures of wood, metal, paint and other objects and it really hit me.” I starting going to museums and galleries, reading about other artists and teaching myself art history. “I started seeing the silk screen infused art of Andy Warhol,” says Newman, “ and the work of Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and other pop artists. It was during this period, when Dave turned 32, that he discovered art. In 1978, Newman met his future wife Donna, and the two of them began a silk screen business and turned it into a successful enterprise. Newman’s father encouraged him to go to college, but never an attentive student, Newman instead went to work, spending time as a bellman at the Sheraton, Anaheim hotel.
Instead, Newman was fascinated by cars and motorcycles and got involved in the culture that sprung up around customizing hot-rods and bikes. (I think to try and impress them that we were cultured out in California!)” “I don't recall having any kind of art in our home and I think we went to the LA County Museum of Art only once when our relatives visited from NYC. “Our family was about as far as you could be from art or any art related visits to museums, or galleries, “ says Newman. There was nothing in Newman’s childhood to indicate that he would become an artist. The weather was almost always perfect, though we did have the occasional earthquake to keep things interesting.” “In addition to growing up next to Disneyland,” Newman recalls, “we would often visit the beach, and Knott’s Berry Farm. The artist recalls a childhood filled with adventure and fun. Newman was born in Long Beach, CA, in 1956, but he grew up in Anaheim, where his family moved the year after Disneyland opened. The imagery will trigger a sense of nostalgia for the 1950s and 1960s in those who experienced the age when the automobile and the newly-built freeway system made it possible for the nation’s citizens to experience the vast stretches of the West from the comfort of a speeding automobile. In Newman’s mixed media collage work, one catches a glimpse of a world where the signs and spectacle that populate the landscape are more important than the landscape itself. You can select a genre or topic to find a project that can be used as a reference.Growing up in the shadow of Disneyland, perhaps it was inevitable that artist Dave Newman would develop a fascination for neon lights, signs and the past. Here, you will see books, magazines, and collages created by other people. You can customize them to create a professional-looking layout for your future book.Īnother advantage is that you will find plenty of samples on the official website. This service has a library of design tools, clipart, backgrounds, frames, and templates that can be used free of charge. While Bookemon is mostly focused on book design, you can also use it to create visually-appealing collages, calendars, postcards, textbooks. Here, you will find templates for creating children, family, school, and travel collages, books, and albums. You can create a custom layout or use one of the available templates. This service allows you to export photos and illustrations in a range of image formats, like JPG, JPEG, GIF, and PNG. Verdict: With the help of Bookemon, you can create collages using PDF, Word, PPT files and photos stored on your device.
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