Collage and photomontage can be interpreted as a highly effective technique of the Avant Garde movement, which questioned, critiqued, and dismantled the status of classical art, as well as the upper class, bourgeois society of the early twentieth century. Artists including Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Kazimir Malevich, Raoul Hausmann, and Hannah Hoch used different styles and aesthetic qualities, to portray different messages about modern life. Although the different artists are from different stylistic periods, the overarching theme of wanting to reject the traditional and the bourgeois and capitalist ideals can be seen across each style and each artist’s work. A collage a work of art which is made up of a collection of various materials, including paper and occasionally ready-made objects. A photomontage is the assembling of various photographs, ridding itself of a complex pictorial space or any formal arrangement. The early Berlin Dadaists began using the term photomontage to distinguish themselves, as well as distance themselves from traditional art . Even the name of the medium, photomontage, …show more content…
Braque was one of the first artists to incorporate everyday materials, also known as ready-made objects, into art. Braque has layered different pieces of paper, cardboard and news paper clippings, constructing the shape of a pipe and the body of a violin. He has also done some shading in charcoal in the background, making vague geometric shapes. The work has no sense of space or background, and although parts of the work overlap each other, there is no depth or three dimensionality. Braque makes several sexual puns in his work. This was very common in cubist collage. The title of Le Quotidien has been cut to only read “Le Qu”, meaning ass. The pipe was also a common term for a penis at this time, the violin’s shape represents a woman’s breasts and the hole in the violin represents the
Attach a small photograph (3.5 x 5 inches or smaller) of something important to you and explain its significance.
Impressionism is the movement in painting and music. The impressionist movement is often considered to mark the beginning of the modern period in art. The primary object is to achieve a spontaneous, undetailed rendering of the world through careful representation of the effect of natural light on objects. ("Impressionism", Encarta)
What is ‘Art’? Does the term describe a tangible object, experiential event, process, technique, medium, or creative skill? Does it imply attractive decoration, pleasant arrangement, and sound financial investment - or can art provoke, be unattractive, make people uncomfortable, and be fleeting? Today, Art is subjective, open to interpretation and encompasses the spectrum of the visual, literary, dance, and musical humanities - often overlapping one another. As such, Art and its practice can be all of the above and more. Post World War II, Modernist theories were waning and a general dissatisfaction was building in the United States and other westernized countries that ultimately led up to the cultural and social revolution of the 1960’s. The period also parallels a rise in relative wealth and subsequent mass consumption of commodities, education, and cultural activities within all the socioeconomic classes. Personal expression became acceptable and art practice exploded to include multiple fields of activity that Rosalind Krauss likens to “an extraordinary practice in elasticity”. Interest in ecology, performance, process, alternative materials, a loosening of social mores and experimentation with altered states of reality contributed to the rise of what is now known amply as Postmodernism. Civil rights, the anti-war movement, rise of feminism, and a political movement left of center created egalitarian entrances for many into various fields of study including Art. Nevertheless, similar to the current state of Western Civilization, not everyone appreciates an open multiplicity of voices often differing in viewpoints from safer, more conservative ones. It is in this context that artists Robert Smithson and Richard Serra bega...
Postmodernity is said to be “a reaction against the Modern movement” (Nicol 2009) and has shown a complete disregard for many aspects of art and design that were popularized during modernity, including: legibility, the grid, and use of a clear hierarchy. Postmodernism, as an art movement, aims to create works based on an independent style. Nothing is new in postmodern art, in a sense that something always comes from something else.
The photos of Baker, Florida are probably meant to highlight the economic problems in Florida during the 1920s. One photo shows a building that used to be a bank but is now a barbershop. The descriptions that come with the photos describe Baker as a town that used to be prosperous until the railroad tracks were torn up. This is further emphasized by another photo that makes Baker look like a ghost town. During the depression over 150 banks in Florida closed. In addition “the operating revenues of two of the largest railroads in Florida went into receivership.” This would explain the pitiful condition of Baker in the photos. The purpose of the photos is to show the dismal economic conditions in Florida. Therefore, it’s possible that they were intended to convince people that something had to be done about Florida.
Most parents want to capture their children's back-to-school moments on film. The only problem with this is that most children get upset at the mere idea of posing for that back-to-school picture, and will do the best that they can to avoid it. If and when you do succeed in getting your child to pose for that picture and look happy, he or she would already have lost the polished look that you worked so hard to achieve. There is a secret on how to make this ritual more tolerable and less of a chore for kids. A little planning goes a long way towards letting you take that precious photograph without upsetting your kids.
Pictorialism was popular in its time with its fine art photography, due to the end result of soft and
At this point the cubist artists stared to experiment with foreign objects, and made the background subjects of the work just as important or significant as the subject in the foreground. They started to incorporate the use of more expressive colors, and pictures became more embellishing than they were before. They also began to experiment with textured patterned surfaces like cutouts, wallpaper, newspaper, sheet music, etc. Today the use of various different materials all together in one work is called collage. The use of collage in their art allowed Picasso to extend the style of cubism to sculpture. Before that period in time sculptures were modeled or carved to be precise, this introduction gave artists permission to make a sculpture out of anything they desired.
The theory of photography originated from the discovery of the camera obscura phenomenon – light that enters a darkened chamber through a small hole is projects an identical inverted image on the interior wall of the outside scene. The first recordings of scientists recognizing this concept was in the writings of Greek philosopher, Aristotle (384 – 322 BC).
During the age of art after World War I, a sense of disillusionment shows up in subject, materials, and the expedition space or location. The Dada movement is a reaction to the horrors of the war, and rejected reason and logic. They despised the intellectual and cultural conformity in art and society. They turned away from the status quo and undermined established authority. It was a new state of mind. The Dadaists collage technique developed during the movement through the pasting of cut pieces of items to portray aspects of life. In photomontages, the Dadaists used scissors and glue rather than paintbrushes to express their views of modern life through images presented by the media. The assemblages were three-dimensional variations of the
There is quite an intricate past of collages, beginning in the early 1900’s. The history of collages goes back to the time of Picasso. That is not really that long at all, so collages are relatively new compared to painting which began during the time of cavemen. “The first deliberate and innovative use of collage in fine art came in two works by Picasso in the spring of 1912” (Kachur 1). Picasso was not considered the one who created the collage, but rather the first to apply it to modern art in that time. It is not only fabulous artists who use collages. A lot of teenagers may create collages without even knowing it, just by assembling pictures of their family and friends, or of magazine clippings. Collages can be extremely dynamic or exceptionally simple, depending on who the artist is and the purpose of the piece of art. Collages are a great way to visually repres...
Street and documentary photography captures a subject or situation in a candid moment. The theme of the images can be broad. A portrait of a begging homeless child on a city street to a man walking his dog in an inner city park can remain under the umbrella of street and documentary photography as the photographer is capturing an honest reflection of that particular environment.
Art is an expression of feelings, body language, culture produced by humans. Art can be expressed in many different ways, and in many different forms from times periods way before you think! You’d be amazed with the different type of skilled work artist come up with each day and it’s all just someone, one person expressing how they feel or what they believe. One form of art that I find very interesting particular is Fauvism. Fauvism is an expressionism that is expressed by art, music literature. This type of art is the spiritually and emotional vision of the world in Artist eyes. Fauvism was a short-lived movement; it lasted only from the time period of 1905-1908. In my opinion based off of how appealing it was it could have been longer. It originated in France. Artist who produced this type of art work were called fauves, French for “wild beast” because they were described to use intense colors, uncontrollably.
Photojournalism is a specific form of journalism that employs the use of images to form a news story that meaningfully contributes to the media. This allows a photographer to capture stills that tell the story of a moment in time. Photojournalism creates a transparency between the media and the people as it depicts an accurate representation where meaning can be misinterpreted through text. Photojournalism largely contributes to the way we understand the reality of a moment. Becker (1982) supports this concept as he compares photography to paintings. He says that paintings get their meaning from the painters, collectors, critics, and curators; therefore photographs get their meaning from the way people understand them and use them. Photojournalist’s
Art has evolved and regenerated itself many times during our human existence. These differences are defined through changes in styles under various theories. During the nineteenth and early twentieth century, a style known as Expressionism became popular. During this movement the artists were trying to use their artwork as a tool of expression toward life. It was mainly dominant in the nonrepresentational arts, such as abstract visual arts and music. It also was probably one of the most difficult movements to understand because the whole point of the piece lay within the artist. Not only was it a movement, it defined the act of art as a whole. From the beginning of time, each work of art, excluding replicas, show a way of expressing one's self. Every artist puts a piece of his or herself into their artwork. Who really is to determine what that work of art was meant to express?