Photomontage collage

This activity teaches photomontage, a form of collage that combines cut photographic and printed images into a single new composition. The student chooses four contrasting sources from the Met archive, prints them at different sizes, and assembles them. The contrast between sources is the curriculum content. A painted Renaissance face next to a botanical drawing next to a photograph makes a meaning none of them carry alone. Students often want everything the same size. Push them toward scale play. A small figure under a huge flower changes the whole composition. The title fixes the meaning.