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
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