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DaDA
George Grosz was part of the Dada movement in
Berlin which was instrumental in making montage
into a modern art-form. They first coined the
term "photomontage" at the end of the war, around
1918 or 1919. The other major exponents were John
Heartfield, Hannah Höch, Kurt Schwitters, Raoul
Hausmann and Johannes Baader. Individual photos
combined together to create a new subject or
visual image proved to be a powerful tool for the
Dadists protesting World War I and the interests
that they believed inspired the war. Photomontage
survived Dada and was a technique inherited and
used by European Surrealists such as Salvador
Dalí. The world's first retrospective show of
photomontage was held in Germany in 1931. A later
term coined in Europe was "photocollage" which
usually referred to large and ambitious works
that added typography and brushwork or even
actual objects stuck to the photomontage.
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Good photomontages have a juxtaposition taking
images that seemingly have nothing to do with
each other and creating a new composition from
them. The keys to making it work use the
principles of design and compositional elements
we have worked on in class. Each image will be
produced on an 11x17 page and use these
principles Repetition Scale Variety
Balance Contrast Emphasis The idea is that we
are going to design a new composition out of
these seemingly random elements the weirder the
better but each image still will work as a
strong composition. This assignment is due and
placed in the Plato Server Monday, September 29
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Hannah Hoch
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Hausmann, RaoulDada Siegt, 1920
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Hausmann, Tatlin at Home, 1920
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Alexsandr Rodchenko
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