Photomontage

I like this painting of the Odyssey because I read all of the stories of the Odyssey in 8th grade. I really like the story of the Odyssey because it was filled with adventure and how they had to fight off a one-eyed beast, Calypso, Circe, Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, and Poseidon. All of the monsters that I named were in the path of Odysseus to prevent them from going back to their home land. I like this painting because it has a wide variety of color to it and shows Odysseus being a brave and…

Sally Mann’s forte in photography is capturing disturbing and unsettling scenes of her family and others. She excels in morbid and death influenced images. For she has many photomontages of deep contrast B&W photos, such as “At Twelve, Sally Mann.” This collage represents sharp blankness in each of her subjects. Mann focuses on these gloomy B&W photos because she appreciates the fine art aspect to photography. In the selection “Southern Landscapes, Sally Mann,” she portrays grunge/lowlight…

George Grosz Every artist is unique in their own ways. They all have different ideas, passion and legacy. George Grosz is a German artist known for his caricatures and paintings that portrayed some of the most venomous social criticism of his time. He is a man of great skill and courage. He had been through a lot of ups and downs but he continued to do his legacy which is to use art to express social and political criticisms. This criticisms through art was instrumental in awakening the…

She highlights the ways in which our very thoughts , beliefs , attitudes and our desires are determined by sociaty’s standards and dictates. It makes us think about what exactly is sold and to whom. She has created large photomontages in her signature style of black and white photographs framed in red with thought provoking captions superimposed. Thus she has created a kind of media criticism by mixing the right image with the right copy to hook the reader. Most of her images…

the viewer with incoherent imagery and frame of thought. In its filmic style as well as in the narrative action within the scissors scene, Daisies presents us with fragments that are both eloquent and surprising. The use of surrealist collage and photomontage in this film are linked by their ability to detach elements from their perpetual relations in order to connect them together in new ways. I think that this style of editing relates back to feminism because it is cut in a way that resembles…

The role for women during the period of the Bauhaus and the works of Marianne Brandt When thinking about the Bauhaus and all of its accomplishments and designs, it is rare that one thinks of a woman's work. Despite this most likely having something to do with Walter Gropius’s intentions, men's domination in the art world and history being written largely by men, there were many distinct successful works by women that have been overshadowed by the male counterpart. Marianne Brandt was one of…

message of freedom to all. However there are thousands of smaller more subliminal interpretations that are left up to the individual. Each person is going to have different associations for different tiles, creating a unique effect for the entire photomontage. One of Zebracki’s main attributes, meaningfulness can…

Lazar Markovich Lissitzky better known as El Lissitzky was a Russian artist, designer, architect, typographer, and photographer. He was an important figure of the Russian avant-garde and he helped develop the Suprematism art movement which focused on basic geometric shapes. His work had a great influence on the development of the Bauhaus and constructivist movements and later on his experimentation with production techniques and stylistic devices in the 1920’s and 1930’s went on to dominate and…

Significant texts offer insights into how core values define the thoughts and actions of individuals within society. It is, however, the context of such texts which present the values and perspectives of composers. Lang’s Metropolis (1927) focuses on the misuse of technology, power and control, reflecting his fears of an exploitative capitalist system in a period of hyperinflation and social turmoil within the Weimar Republic. Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984(1948) demonstrates his criticism of…

For instance, Ruth backs up her point by stating there is “a marked increase in solitary ‘happiness pursuits’,” this supports her previous sayings on how society believes happiness comes from within, time alone, by showing the population actually takes part in the belief, making Ruth's findings believable. Whippman also exercises how this point of view is changing “spiritual and religious practice...from a community based endeavor to a private one.” the mentioning of this shows the length of the…