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…

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…

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…

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…

of the industrial revolution and modern life. The interpretation of Cubism artwork could be exemplified by the concepts of subjectivity and the idea of no distinctions between past, present and future. The Dada Movement started in Zurich, Switzerland, in the 20th century. The movement was focused on protest activities instigated by the disgust for bourgeois values and despair over World War I and anti-aesthetic creation. More than an artistic style, Dada was influenced by collaboration,…

physical sport. Not only will you be happy, but you will also be very able bodied and physically fit. These show parades that happened once a year were supposed to draw citizens in. This was essentially a very strong form of propaganda meant to get the citizens involved in the Soviet State and make them believe that the Soviet ways were the best and only way. Picture 6: This picture comes from Chapter 1 “Visualizing Fizkultura” from Mike O’Mahony’s book Sport in the USSR: Physical Culture –…

deconstructed bitterly in 1922–3, although further Dada activities continued among those unwilling to join Surrealism in 1924 (MoMA.org, 2009). 1.1 Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany 1919 - Hannah Höch Figure 1: Höch, H. (1919). Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany. [Photomontage and collage with watercolor]. Hannah Höch was an artistic and cultural…