Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Colors!

So today I will be writing to you about color palettes! They are probably one of my most favorite things in art that I do. I love creating a palette that people can relate to, something that really creates a feeling. If you have a palette that is used for a melancholy composition you surely won't be using a bright hot pink! but thats just it, you can completely change a composition just by changing the color palette. So let me tell you about these specific palettes I've used.

Palette #1: This is an older color scheme that I have used in the past but I continue to find myself using it often. These colors are more of an analogous color scheme. I would personally use this for a melancholy picture, or something that I would like to look cool or underground. Because you know, it gets cold before it gets warm to get to the middle of the earth.

Palette #2: For this in particular palette I based it on what I consider galaxy colors. If you know me I love the galaxy. These are once again analogous colors which means they lay on the same side of the color wheels and reside next to each other. I would clearly use these colors for a galaxy piece. 


Palette #3: This palette is more of a compliment palette. Mainly because of the red and yellow. Thats the only reason this palette works, because its a compliment! which means the color is opposite from each other.
This palette would be tricky to use because of the red. I would use it where there is a light from a candle in a dark and damp room.


Photomontage

So the definition of Photomontage in the so called internet dictionary is " A combination of several photographs joined together for artistic effect or to show more of the subject than can be shown in a single photograph." 
My definition of Photomontage is " The process of cutting up photographs and joining two or more photographs together to create an illusion of an unreal subject. 
Both definitions are somewhat correct. Photomontage was first coined up in the Dadaism art movement.It started in 1916 in Europe. It was essentially to spit in the face of the current war that was going on. 
Dadaism is almost ironic. Like the art is art but its not or it was a movement but it wasn't or maybe even the artist were artist but not all at the same time. You following me here?
There were 3 great artists who came from the Dada movement. Hannah Hotch, she would take images from fashion magazines and illustrated journal. She would create humorous works of art that moved the society. She inspired many people during this era people like George Grosz, Theo Van Doesburg and Kurt Schwitters. However she wasn't the only one who came from the Dadaism movement there were two other people who came from it one being Grete Stern. She started with regular photography that was placed on the cover of magazines. She ended up moving to Argentina with her husband where she went to working on photomontage. The last mentionable person is El Lissitzky. He was an architect and a photographer who was born in Russia his work was the inspiration of the Bauhaus. His design is also the inspiration for many graphic artist today.
The inspiration for my photomontage project would have to be David Hockney.
He takes the image and splits it up into multiple different images but rearranges them into the same image only at different planes.







Citations: 

"Photomontage." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, n.d. Web. 8 Oct. 2014. <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ph

"photomontage." About. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Oct. 2014. <http://arthistory.about.com/od/glossary_p/a/p_photomontage.htm>.

"What Dada Was and Why It Matters."About. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Oct. 2014. <http://arthistory.about.com/cs/arthistory10one/a/dada.htm>.

"Hannah Höch." Hannah Höch. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Oct. 2014. <http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/hannah-hch>.

"Sharing StoriesInspiring Change." Grete Stern. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Oct. 2014. <http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/stern-grete>.

"El Lissitzky : Design Is History." El Lissitzky : Design Is History. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Oct. 2014. <http://www.designishistory.com/1920/el-lissitzky/>.

Images:

http://mimighauri.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/photo-montage-hockneystyle.jpg

http://photo-3.wataugasd.whs.schoolfusion.us/modules/groups/homepagefiles/909660-1083309-109224-6.jpg

http://mrmartinexampleblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/hockney-david-1982-patrick-procktor-pembroke-studios-london-7th-may-1982-photo-montage.jpg