Photomontage

David Hockney is a great painter,but he has also known fame through photography, although he does not mince his words when he says ‘Photography will never equal painting!’ In the early 1980s, Hockney began to produce photocollages, which he called "joiners," first of Polaroid prints and later of 35mm, commercially processed color prints. Using varying numbers of Polaroid snaps or photolab-prints of a single subject Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image. One of his first photomontages was of his mother. Because these photographs are taken from different perspectives and at slightly different times, the result is work that has an affinity with Cubism, which was one of Hockney's major aims – discussing the way human vision…

Hannah Hoch is much known for her photomontage art work and the participation in the Dada movement. The Dada movement was a literary, artistic movement in 1916 which started after World War I. Hoch wasn’t just a rare woman practicing prominently the arts of the early twentieth century; she was a unique female who was a huge supporter in the Dada movement. Her artwork was inspired by promoting the concept of women working creatively in general society. Hoch expressed her political beliefs by…

Jesse Treece is an artist that creates various photomontage collages into unique compositions. He does this by incorporating distinct photographic scenes into one. “Long Walks On The Beach” is one good example in which he created a collage of two separate scenes in one picture. In this art work, the image portrays two people walking on the beach, but the sky appears to be an image of a planet. “Discoface” is another interesting collage of his because he created the composition out of three or…

collage artist. Hoch was introduced to dada by Raoul Hausmann who at the time people thought they were in a relationship. She created photomontages in dada, some of her collage were featured in the first dada fair in 1920. Hoch became a big person in dada even though she faced sexism because she was a women. Hannah Hoch made many collages and sculptures while working in dadaism. One of her sculptures is called dada dolls. They were 2 dolls made from various materials and fabrics, one doll had…

John Heartfield, born Helmut Herzfeld, founder of the German DADA group, was a leading pioneer of the photomontage which he used primarily to raise public consciousness and promote social change. According to Heartfield, his work simply disclosed the “truth” obscured by the mainstream press and by the propaganda of his political opponents. In pursuing this goal of unveiling, he often concentrated his efforts on photographs that had appeared in the illustrated press and has thus already played a…

The 1962 art science-fiction French movies ‘La Jetée’ was directed By Chris Marker. The movie runs for 28 minutes and most of the film shot by using ‘Photomontage’ technique shot in black and white apart from one short video that shot in motion which is the scene that the girl is sleeping in the bed and the picture going to fade and then suddenly open her eyes and blinking. Photomontage is a combination of several images joined together in an artistic way. This movie has been Recognized as one…

NWG included many famous fine artists, such as Willi Baumeister, Walter Dexel, and Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart. These artists were deeply active in commercial design works. Also, there were artists who are well known as designers, such as George Trump, Piet Zwart, and Paul Schuitema. NWG was a group who combined the first statements on the new typography by Jan Tschichold and László Moholy-Nagy. Their purpose was the promotion of a common vision of the avant-garde. Their graphics are known…

She is best known for being a pioneer photomontages, which manipulate photographic images to create works similar to that of a collage, but by manipulating photography’s function to document and communicate. Despite Dada being a reaction to World War I, when it reached Berlin in 1917 Kleiner writes that it took on an activist political edge in response to the social, political and economical turmoil experienced in Berlin at the end of, and after, World War I. The Berlin dadaists were…

Born Helmut Herzfeld, John Heartfield was a German, he changed his name on April 29th, 1968. He specialized in German Dada and political artistry. According to johnheartfield.com Mr. Heartfield was a very outspoken person. He created many visually striking pieces throughout his years as an artist. When he began his main artistry he was very big on anti-Nazi and anti-fascist statement artwork. He was one of the first artists to use his artwork as a weapon and help see governments/rulers for what…

The film “Look Both Ways” directed by Sarah Watt explores many ideas such as fear, religion/faith, and loneliness. These ideas are portrayed to the viewer using a variety of visual techniques such as animation, photomontage, transitions, close-ups, adjacent worlds, music, tracking, still shots, sound effects and cuts. The idea of fear of various characters is portrayed in the film using a variety of techniques. Watt uses animation when Meryl is walking and imagines someone coming up to her…